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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