Pure awareness cannot think.
I am able to think, because of the non separate power to think, which I call as intellect, mind, senses, body , and so on, which are all connected for the presence of a functioning individual.
Intellect is a function, mind is a function, senses are a function, body has both form and function.
This form and function I am able to cognize or be aware of, and there is knowledge regarding form and function. Knowledge presupposes awareness.
Thereby awareness is not a form or function, not a knowledge, but awareness is a self existent principle. It can only be called a principle, as it is not a form or function, nor is it an object.
I am this self existent principle of awareness. I have neither form nor function, every form or function is, every knowledge is, presupposing the presence of the awareness principle. There is no knowledge possible without the self existent awareness principle.
Self existent awareness principle is constant, is timeless in fact. Every time cognition, presupposes the self existent awareness principle, which by itself is not subject to time, is not within time.
If it were within time, then the concept of time would not be possible to know. It will not be possible to know time. To know time, there has to be a timeless awareness principle which is self existent.
It is that principle or nature of mine because of which I am aware of time. I being aware of time, I am timeless, or rather , I am not within time, I am not subject to changing in time.
I am aware of time itself, and everything within time that undergoes change.
As awareness I do not undergo any change. I do not will awareness, I am awareness by myself, as that is my nature in itself.
What is this ishvara and this jagat then.
In the presence of me only time is, space is, all the beings are, all the universe is.
It is a wonderous truth that this universe that we say 'is', actually has no existence , is not an existent entity by itself. As it is a bunch of names and forms, whose reality resolves in something else other than itself.
All that is here, has its reality resolving in something else, other than itself. It also has a name and form.
Shastra says vAcharambano vikaro nama deyam, mrtikka eva satyam.
So I am not just awareness principle, timeless awareness principle, I am also brahman, the one , who lends existence to all beings. To space, to time, to elements, to the jagat.
It is I who is called as the the lord, as the controller of the jagat, with the upadhi of maya , the prakrti, who becomes intelligent or appears as intelligent in my presence. Maya shakti, also gains existence with my as the basis. So I am the basis for ishvara, and ishvara alone is the jagat.
So what is here is the manifest ishvara, and ishvara is none other than myself with maya shakti.
Maya shakti is not a second entity, it is myself, but it is mithya, having it reality in me, Maya shakti is swallowed in the ultimate sense, in paramarthika sense.