Sushi: Do let me know if Balsekar’s views are in step with his guru’s Thou artwork That or Tat Tvam Asi. What is supposed by full consideration to What Is?
Jagjot: Sure, I imagine Ramesh’s views have been the identical. I usually heard him saying Thou Artwork That in his talks. Ramesh’s model of educating was extra refined as in comparison with Nisargadatta Maharaj who was direct and explosive.
Somebody like me wouldn’t take in teachings that means as a result of I’m a bit reactive myself. My fireplace component is dominant. And something loud or aggressive would invoke my ego after which there could be no receptivity.
Due to this fact, I wanted the knowledge from somebody who was ample within the water (fluid) component. Somebody who might convey what was happening with out stroking my anxiousness. And teachings of Ramesh and Jiddu did that. That’s precisely how I felt within the presence of that grasp in Kashmir.
The phrase “full consideration to What-Is” was usually utilized by Jiddu Krishnamurti. He put it in a robust means. So the very first thing is to grasp what’s “What Is.” Any obvious taking place in duality is introduced as an expertise within the type of the subject-object break up.
There’s a topic experiencing an object. The thing could be both bodily or refined (ideas, feeling, and feelings). Full consideration is the witnessing of the taking place with out thoughts analyzing “What Ought to Be” or “What Ought to Not Be.”
Due to this fact, full consideration is an impersonal consciousness of being or “I AM,” which is devoid of that non-public company that contemplates “what ought to or shouldn’t be.” So the taking place, in itself, is solely “What Is.”
With complete consideration, there is no such thing as a “you” seeing something, however all the content material arising is witnessed by the consciousness. Due to this fact, nothing results in involvement and creates struggling. In different phrases, watchfulness is taking place, however there is no such thing as a particular person judging, reacting, or analyzing something. Does this make sense?
So within the impersonal witnessing, what’s “seen” is “What-Is” and never “What Ought to or Shouldn’t be.” That is the only means I can put it intellectually.
For a realized being the Self alone is the Actuality, and actions
are solely phenomenal, not affecting the Self. Even when he acts he
has no sense of being an agent. His actions are solely involuntary
and he stays a witness to them with none attachment.Ramana Maharshi.
You possibly can confer with chapters “Watching Oneself Ceaselessly” and “Cultivating Witness Consciousness” in my e book “Finish of Me & My Story.”
Sushi: I don’t catch the “I AM” very properly. Or the Self. I perceive give up and non-doership.
Jagjot: “I AM” or the final word actuality can’t be caught by “you.” The Self can’t be skilled as an object of your consciousness. You’re looking for a state (object), however the cause why you may’t discover it’s that it’s already you or the presence. “I AM” is the substratum over which the thoughts is a superimposition. The thoughts can by no means expertise it as an object.
Due to this fact, witnessing is the absence of “me.” There’s no simple means for me to clarify this. When the sense of private identification dissolves utterly, witnessing begins to occur, with out you attempting to do something.
To provide you an instance, after I was working, I’d usually exit for walks after lunch all on my own. In these days, I didn’t have a smartphone (Nokia N97 or one thing like that, solely calls), so I’d sit on a nook of a busy avenue and observe folks passing by.
Sooner or later, the statement would finish, and witnessing would start, the place my physique was additionally “seen” as an object amongst all others. In that all the things collapsed. There was no time or house. It was pure bliss!!
The phenomenon or taking place is witnessed by the attention, and the attention behind each obvious taking place is “seen” as one with it.
Sorry, it’s extraordinarily difficult to clarify this! However the first time I heard about witnessing, I knew precisely what Ramesh meant by it!
When the witnessing begins or ends, will not be in our management. This occurs with emotions as properly. Typically a painful feeling arises, after which it will get reduce off instantly. The thought that continues to be is witnessed and not using a topic. Witnessing ends struggling at that second!