What is the Consciousness according to Bhagavad Gita?
Consciousness is a quality of a substance that is different to matter. We can call the substance anti-matter, non-matter, superior substance, or spiritual substance, the name is not so important as the fact that it is completely different to matter. It is alive, and conscious, while matter is unconscious and dead. Life is evident by observing it’s effect on matter - birth, growth, maintenance, by-products, dwindling and death. This is well known, and conscious accompanies life. We are alive and conscious because we are different from matter. We are a small spark of this superior substance and we are embedded in a material body. Through the material body we interact with the world, but the material body is a machine only, made of matter. We are the life and consciousness of the machine. We are in our machine of a human being, someone else is in a machine called elephant, someone else mosquito, shark, tulip, there are millions of machines in which life is present. Wherever ther