What is real consciousness?

Pure intransitive awareness alone is real consciousness and what actually exists

Michael James’s note to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, quoted in A landscape of consciousness, on what Bhagavan taught about consciousness.
Transitive awareness (suttarivu) versus intransitive awareness (suttatra arivu), and pure consciousness as sat-cit, like the gold behind the ornaments in Ulladu Narpadu verse 13.
Transitive awareness as cidabhasa, a borrowed reflection resting on intransitive awareness the way a snake appears on a rope.
Ego as ‘I am this body’ made of the five sheaths, and sleep showing that we are aware of being even when aware of nothing else.
Self-investigation as ‘always keeping the mind on oneself’ from Nan Ar?, with Upadesa Undiyar verses 16 and 26 on being as knowing oneself.
Ego rising by attending to other things and subsiding by attending to ourself, and the patient practice needed for that all-consuming love.