What a wonderful question.
No.
Awareness/Consciousness does not have a voice.
And unfortunately, in the realm of ‘spirituality,’ it’s all too ‘spiritual, new-agey, and wooey-wooey to give What Is flowery names, distinctions and human-like qualities.
What Is is What Is. It’s not Awareness or Consciousness or Atman or Soul or even pure Being, a term which I myself have used too many times (sorry🙄 ) to explain the un-label-able.
You could say It’s just Is-ness, but It is the Is-ness of Is-ness.
You could say It is the Empty Space in which everything can exist, but to the ‘mind,’ which is absolutely incapable of grasping non-duality, that would immediately be interpreted as subject-object…The Space (subject) holds or knows about This Everything )object.) There is absolutely no subject or object at the core of What Is.
You could say It’s Nothing being Everything, which is more accurate, but even more greek to the mind.
Nothing, of course, has, nor needs, no voice.
A voice would only be good for subject-object.
A voice would only be good for giving guidance & direction towards some ‘goal,’
But there is nowhere to go, nothing to change or attain, and no ‘goal that’s ‘righter’ or ‘better’ than anything else…because Wholeness is already Whole…so Nothing needs to speak to Nothing Else to ‘make sure it’s on the right track.’
For our hopelessly-limited ‘human’ understanding, you may say everything is all just Energy. Not only ‘spirituality,’ but even ‘science’ would agree with this. Just energy that appears to coalesce into form for a while, then dissolve back into the formless.
Does pure energy have a voice? No. When it temporarily takes a form, certain attributes might seem to be real & present - like a body, arms, a voice that comes from the throat, a voice inside our head, etc.
I have had students say that, in deep meditation, they went totally behind the constant narration in the head to total Silence…and even there they heard a Voice - The Voice of Silence 🤣. Obviously, they were hallucinating :-)
In all compassion, what they heard was nothing more than their ego-mind desire to keep their illusory ‘separate identity’ going by identifying “themselves” as a real ‘subject’ (“I”) that heard something separate from their “I” (a voice.)
I would recommend ceasing to use the words Awareness and Consciousness, because of the mind’s irresistible tendency to make this into a subject-object relationship, then start asking questions like, “Is Awareness aware of Awareness?” or “Is Consciousness conscious of Itself? or most absurdly “Can we, as ‘seekers’ or ‘practicers,’ be aware of Awareness?
It’s all illusory distinctions. Wholeness is already whole, complete and immaculate. It therefore has no purpose, no meaning (as “we” understand those words,) and no voice. It just Is.
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