SELF- WITNESS TO ALL

The human being is a seer of all that happens around. It is indeed his bondage that instead of identifying himself as the self, he sees himself as something different.

The consciousness in one is the light in which his organs, senses, mind and intelligence function. These are the equipments through which the consciousness perceives the world of objects and subjects, emotions and thoughts. In other words the self is the sole seer that looks at the world through the live of an individual. Thus as the sole seer it is ever free.

The cause of all the problems for an individual is the fact that instead of identifying himself or herself as the self, one identifies with the limited ego which in turn is conditioned by the equipments of experiences.

Self is the only subject, All other things belong to the world of objects. The world of objects is illusory superimposed on the self which is the subject. The self can see without eyes, hear without ears, and is devoid of all forms.

Self is all knowing ever pure knowledge and there is none that knows the self.

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SELF- WITNESS TO ALL

Virtue and vice, happiness and sorrow are all attributes of the mind. The self is neither the doer nor the enjoyer. It is ever free. As long as the ego exists, one identifies oneself as a doer or the enjoyer. These two assertions collectively constitute the illusory sense of ego.

When this ego functions through this world of objects it pursues virtues and indulges in vices. Here it is the doer. Again the same ego gets tossed around in its experiences of happiness and sorrow. In short the ego can not escape  the conflicts created by the pair of objects.

It is thus advised that the conflicts of good and bad, and the struggles between pleasure and pain are all evaluations of the mind and therefore belong to the mind alone and not to the self. Virtue and vice are again the evaluations of the intellect. The self is the all pervading consciousness.  As the pure self one is ever free from the conflicts and confusions of one’s own ego. The doer and enjoyer status within us gushes forth from our identification with our mind and intellect which jointly feed our ego. When all its identifications with the mind and the intellect have ended, the ego returns to its original position as the BLISSFUL SELF.

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SELF- WITNESS TO ALL

One does not belong to either any caste or creed or any station of life. In other words he does not belong to any religion, community, caste, or country. 

Nor does he belong to any of the ashramas viz. Bramhacharyam, grihastam, vaanaprastham or sanyasam. We are all self which is not perceivable by the senses. Thus unattached, formless and witness of all, one should be happy.

As the illuminator, the pure consciousness is completely detached from the entire world of objects. Self is formless and unconditioned by anything other than itself.

All that constitutes the enjoyable, the enjoyer and the enjoyment in the three different states of consciousness are different from the witness of all these stages.

Once we realize this all our sorrows, tensions, and stresses vanish and we at once become peaceful.

Thus a growing sense of peace and happiness floods the bosom of the seeker who seeks the inner sanctum sanctorum of the self.

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SELF- WITNESS TO ALL

If you detach yourself from the body and abide in consciousness you will at once become happy, peaceful and free from bondage.

Meditation is a method of withdrawing ourselves from our gross, subtle and causal bodies and abide ourselves in consciousness.

Astavakra, Sankaracharya and other like minded saints declare that the realization of the self is possible even when a saint lives in his body and functions like any other mortal. This is known as jeevan mukti.

According to Yoga Vashishtha in case, renouncing all, without any vasanas, you can stay, then right now you have attained liberation. Astavakra Gita lays the foundation and indicates the path that expounds infinite oneness and the theory of non creation of the universe.

If we possess wealth it is okay, but if the wealth possesses us then it is wrong.    

If we enjoy good food it is okay but if the food starts enjoying us then nit is wrong.

Similarly if we control our body then it is okay but if the body begins to control us then it is wrong.

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SELF- WITNESS TO ALL

One should realize that he or she is not the gross, subtle or causal body. He or she is the embodiment of the pure consciousness which is actually a witness to all these bodies made of ether, air, fire, water, earth, senses, mind, intelligence and false ego. The subtle and causal bodies function through the gross body that is made of the five gross elements. The residual vasanas in each one of us swell up to express and exhaust themselves. A vasana sprouts first as a desire disturbance in the intellect which in the mental zone produces thought disturbances and they in turn precipitate at the body level as the exhausting activities of the individual in the society. The gross and subtle equipments of one’s existing vasanas are fabricated by the nature out of these five great elements. Once the vasanas have been exhausted the gross and subtle bodies do not have any function and the individualized ego sense awakes itself to rediscover as the pur infinite consciousness the self.

To complete the process of negation of our gross and subtle bodies, a positive assertion of our spiritual nature is necessary. In order to liberate oneself from the delusory sorrows of the body and of the mind one should learn to experience the self within.

Just like the sunlight illuminates the objects in a room, the consciousness within us illuminates our experiences through our gross, subtle and causal bodies. Similarly just as the sunlight does not get involved with what it illuminates, the consciousness within us is unattached to all these experiences. This relation less-relationship between the self and the bodies is emphasized to help the student of self realization to meditate on his self. When through meditation the student withdraws himself from these bodies, in the resulting inward stillness all these vasanas get burnt up, uplifting the student into the plain of the pure consciousness itself.

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