'Sakshatkaram'

Sri Ramana Maharshi

We are always the sakshat (Real) and what is there for one to attain (karam) after that? We call this world sakshat or pratyaksha (directly present). What is changing, what appears and disappears, what is not sakshat, we regard as sakshat. We are always, and nothing can be more directly more present than we, and about that we say we have to attain sakshatkaram after all these sadhanas. Nothing can be more strange than this. The Self is not attained by doing anything other than remaining still and being as we are.

We say that what we see with the eyes alone is pratyaksha. There must first be the seer before anything could be seen. You are yourself the eyes that sees, அந்தமிலாக்கண் (The Infinite Eye), referred to in ulladhu narpadhu (Reality in Forty Verses).