Witness, Person, Supreme

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Q: When you say, I am in the state of beyond the witness, then the

experience that makes you say so? In what way does it differ from the

stage of being a witness only?

 

M: It is like washing printed cloth. First the design fades, then the

background and in the end the cloth is plain white. The personality

gives place to the witness, then the witness goes and pure awareness

remains. The cloth was white in the beginning and is white in the

end; the patterns and colors just happened – for a time. 401

 

Q: Can there be awareness without an object of awareness?

M: Awareness with an object we called witnessing. When there is also

self-identification with the object, caused by desire or fear, such a

state is called a person. In reality there is only one state; when

distorted by self-identification it is called a person, when colored

with the sense of being; it is the witness, when colorless and

limitless, it is called the Supreme. 401

 

Q: I find that I am always restless, longing, hoping, seeking,

finding, enjoying, abandoning, searching again. What is that keeps me

on the boil?

M: You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are

love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfectly lovable. Due to

ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and

contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over. 401

 

Q: There will be always this sorrowful world to contend with.

M: Don't anticipate. You do not know. It is true that all

manifestation is in the opposites. Pleasure and pain, good and bad,

high and low, progress and regress, rest and strife – they all come

and go together – and as long as there is a world, its contradictions

will be there. There may be also be periods of perfect harmony, of

bliss and beauty, but only for a time. What is perfect, returns to

the source of all perfection and the opposites play on. 402

 

Q: How am I to reach perfection?

M: Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet.

Then all will come to you. Do not rely on your work for realization.

It may profit others, but not you. Your hope lies in keeping silent

in your mind and quiet in your heart. Realized people are every

quiet. 402

 

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