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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