Magdi explains the relationship between knowing and being as a fundamental unity where the two are ultimately one and the same. He states clearly that “there is no being without knowing or knowing without being”.
According to the sources, this relationship can be understood through the following key points:
1. Identity and Equivalence
Magdi equates being with reality and knowing with awareness. Because they are one, he summarizes the relationship with two core statements:
- Reality is aware.
- Awareness is real.
Magdi uses the terms “awareness,” “reality,” and “being” interchangeably to describe the “changeless” aspect of our experience that remains the same regardless of physical changes, such as the body aging from ten to forty years old.
2. The Requirement of Recognition
Magdi notes that while being is the ultimate source, awareness is necessary to acknowledge it: “To recognize being, awareness is required.” He describes the experience of “Being recognizing itself” as the “crystalline,” “formless,” and “transparent” aspect of consciousness that shines upon itself without needing any external objects or manifestations. This self-awareness—awareness being aware within itself—is sometimes referred to by the term sat-chit-ananda.
3. Consciousness as the Ultimate Source
In Magdi’s explanation, this unity of being and knowing is where “the buck stops.” He argues that:
- There is nothing before or beyond awareness/being in our direct experience.
- Because being and knowing are at “zero distance” from one another, they are outside of time.
- This single reality (the union of being and knowing) simultaneously conceives, creates, perceives, and destroys manifestation in a spontaneous, timeless “Big Bang” of the moment.
Ultimately, Magdi suggests that we are “deeply, deeply, deeply rooted in the absolute,” which is this very presence of being that is and knows it is.
