Seer-Seen

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Q. How is the Self to be realized?

Transcend the present plane of relativity. A separate being (Self) appears to know something apart from itself (non-Self). That is, the subject is aware of the object. The seer is drik; the seen is drishya. There must be unity underlying these two, which arises as 'ego'. This ego is of the nature of chit (intelligence); achit (insentient object) is only negation of chit. Therefore the underlying essence is akin to the subject and not the object. Seeking the drik until all drishya disappears, the drik will become subtler and subtler until the absolute drik alone survives.This process is called drishya vilaya (disappearance of the objective world).