The state of being conscious comes and goes within non-conceptual awareness. Being awake or conscious is not the same as non-conceptual awareness. Consciousness is the first manifestation or experience in duality. All subsequent experiences are time-bound appearances that depend upon the presence of consciousness. But consciousness too is an experience that comes and goes. You are aware of being conscious, correct? Parse that out very carefully. YOU are aware OF being conscious. Therefore, you are that which is aware of the coming and going of consciousness. That awareness is not a state or experience, however glorious or exalted. It is the basis and ground of all experiencing. It is that which is prior to the arising of consciousness and prior to any and all subsequent experiences in consciousness. It is the timeless, spaceless, unborn and uncreated, non-conceptual, non-dual absolute. You are That.