Witness

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hi Everybody:

 

"Buddhi, as the sum total of the inner organs, in contact with the

reflected consciousness has two aspects. One is called egoity and

the other mind."

Shankara's "Viveka Chudamani"- Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

 

The inner organs are the parts of the brain that process stimuli into

an organized world view. Smells, sounds, tastes, sights, and tactile

sensations must be perceived in context with experience. The 'world'

that forms around sensory input is the sum total of the inner

organs. Every experience is catalogued according to this world view.

 

Logic, intuition, imagination, dreaming, and memory while pure in

themselves must rely on this world view for information to process.

 

The two aspects of the combination of reflected consciousness and the

sum total of the inner organs as stated above are egoity and mind.

In looking at the patterns made by the relative proportions of the

four different brainwaves one sees mind as the ripples that cross the

otherwise smooth and perfectly reflected consciousness. These

brainwaves can be controlled by the ego. Egoity, while existing as a

reflection, assumes the mantle of the real Self by its command of the

mind.

 

The conclusion is that the physical world is non-existent as an

understandable, independent entity without the mind which arises

simultaneously with the ego. Hence, the disappearance of the world of

thought and form with the disappearance of the ego.

 

Viveka Chudamani-

...."The contact establishing identity (sameness, [bg]) between the

ego and the reflected consciousness, is of three kinds.

 

1. The identification of the ego with the reflected Consciousness

is natural or innate.

 

2. The identification of the ego with the body is due to past

karma.

 

3. The identification of the ego with the witness is due to

ignorance....

 

....The individual with his reflected light of Consciousness is the

subtle body existing in close proximity with the Self that is the

vyavaharika (The empirical Self). This individual character of the

empirical Self appears in the witness or sakshi also through false

superimpostion. But on the extinction of the veiling power (tamas),

the distinction between witness and the empirical Self becomes clear;

and the superimposition also drops away."

 

Love

Bobby G.