Who/What?

Who/What?

The title of this post itself is very intriguing, excavating and exploring.

If we look at human being's life there are various aspects that through which we gather many experiences.

In the wakefulness state we gather experiences through 14 elements:

• 5 organs of senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin)
• 5 organs of action (mouth, arms, feet, excretory and reproductive organs)
• 4 internal elements (mind, intellect, ego and chitta)

In the dream state also we gather experiences through these same 14 elements.

Surprisingly in the deep sleep state we don't gather any experiences and we are not even aware of the presence of these 14 elements. More surprisingly we become aware or we have a knowledge that we have slept deeply and feel very refreshed.

So, "who/what" is that which is present and letting us know about our experiences?

We might be under an illusion that we are experiencing so many phenomenon or various aspects of life. But, if we reflect truly and very intriguingly, then there should be something or someone who is witnessing the experiencer and the aspect of experiencing process also.

So, this kind of questioning takes us deep into an aspect where we are thrown into silence and there is no answer really in the form of an answer to our question. What exactly is happening is that we become aware of a witness being ever present and witnessing all aspects of the illusory happenings and the illusory identifications of these happenings.

Hence, this witness is the one that is eternally present and eternally free. The illusion of achieving freedom is again an illusory thought which is arising because of the illusory identifications and entanglements with the various illusory happenings.

So, in truth there is only an eternal witness that is witnessing all the illusory happenings. In summary life is a bundle of illusory happenstances with illusory identifications and illusory entanglements. When we question what/who is actually telling us that, so and so aspect of life is happening? Then with the right approach and seeing we can go beyond the happening, beyond the illusion and beyond the identification. Then, we go beyond the question and instead of finding the answer, we become the answer. In reality we are the answer already. We just need to realize that we are the answer already.

The practice is to:

• see beyond the seeing and the non-seeing
• hear beyond the hearing and non-hearing
• feeling beyond the feeling and non-feeling
• tasting beyond the tasting and non-tasting
• smelling beyond the smelling and non-smelling
• witnessing beyond the doing and non-doing
• witnessing beyond the thinking, non-thinking, thought and thoughtless
• witnessing beyond the being and non-being
• witnessing beyond the entanglement and non-entanglement
• witnessing beyond the identification and non-identification
• witnessing beyond the states of wakefulness, dream and deep sleep state
• witnessing beyond the experience, the experiencer, non-experience and the non-experiencer
• witnessing beyond the witnessing and non-witnessing

Then the question and the questioner witnesses that in reality they are the answer and the answer is ever present witnessing eternally.

This is what we can call it as the "self" reflecting on the "Self" and realizing that it is the "Self"!