2 - Identifying Ourselves as The 'Witness' (साक्षी) | Swami Tattwamayananda

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Drg Drsya Viveka | The Seer and the Seen

Religion & Spirituality


Verses 1, 2, 3, 5A brief overview of the text and the topics discussed:-The eternal conflict: What we want and what our mind is willing to do.-The cause of problems in our everyday life: forgetting the impermanence of the worldly experiences.-The subject and the objects, the seer ('drashta') and the seen ('drshya'), the perceiver and the perceived, the witness and the witnessed -A phenomenological approach-The form is the seen and objectified. -Worldly objects and experiences change every moment.-Atman is the unchanging seer and the eternal witness (साक्षी), which is beyond immanence and transcendence.-Atman, the eternal, unchanging revealer of all, the 'light of all lights'.