"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Seen-Seer Are One

Continued from here
Sage Vasishtha

It is only when the division between the seen and the seer is given up, only when the two are 'seen' as of one substance, that the truth is realized. There is no object which is totally of a different nature from the subject. Nor can the subject (seer) be seen as if it were an object! In fact the subject (Self) alone appears to the sight as the seen (object): there is no other object of perception here. If again the subject (Self) alone is all this, then surely it is not even the subject or the seer! There is no division is such a vision.

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