How do I know whether I am aware?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner (Q): How to know whether I am aware?

Acharya Prashant (AP): What you call as ‘knowing’ is just thinking. It is a mental activity. Do you know of anything that is beyond the mind? You know of so many things in this world. Right? List them and see whether anything that you know is beyond…