All is One

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

How do you see things?

One and all are the same to me. The same consciousness (chit) appears as being (sat) and as bliss (ananda): chit in movement is ananda; chit motionless is being.

Still you are making a distinction between motion and motionlessness.

Non-distinction speaks in silence. Words carry distinctions. The unmanifested (nirguna) has no name, all names refer to the manifested (saguna). It is useless to struggle with words to express what is beyond words. Consciousness (chidananda) is spirit (purusha), consciousness is matter (prakriti). Imperfect spirit is matter, perfect matter is spirit. In the beginning as in the end, all is one. 

All division is in the mind (chitta); there is none in reality (chit). Movement and rest are states of mind and cannot be without their opposites. By itself nothing moves, nothing rests. It is a grievous mistake to attribute to mental constructs absolute existence. Nothing exists by itself.

You seem to identify rest with the Supreme State?

There is rest as a state of mind (chidaram) and there is rest as a state of being (atmaram). The former comes and goes, while the true rest is the very heart of action. Unfortunately, language is a mental tool and works only in opposites. 

As a witness, are you working or at rest?

Witnessing is an experience and rest is freedom from experience.