QUESTIONER: You said once that the seer, seeing and the seen are one single thing, not three.

 

QUESTIONER: You said once that the seer, seeing and the seen are one single thing, not three. To me the three are separate. I do not doubt your words, only I do not understand. MAHARAJ: Look closely and you will see that the seer and the seen appear only when there is seeing. They are attributes of seeing. When you say ‘I am seeing this’. ‘I am’ and ‘this’ come with seeing, not before. You cannot have an unseen ‘this’ nor an unseeing ‘I’ am’. QUESTIONER: I can say: ‘I do not see’. MAHARAJ: The ‘I am seeing this’ has become ‘I am seeing my not seeing’, or ‘I am seeing darkness’. The seeing remains. In the triplicity: the known, knowing and the knower, only the knowing is a fact. The ‘I am’ and ‘this’ are doubtful. Who knows? What is known? There is no certainty, except that there is knowing. QUESTIONER: Why am I sure of knowing, but not of the knower? MAHARAJ: Knowing is a reflection of your true nature along with being and loving. The knower and the known are added by the mind. It is in the nature of the mind to create a subject-object duality, where there is none. QUESTIONER: What is the cause of desire and fear? MAHARAJ: Obviously, the memory of past pains and pleasures. There is no great mystery about it. Conflict arises only when desire and fear refer to the same object. QUESTIONER: How to put an end to memory? MAHARAJ: It is neither necessary, nor possible. Realize that all happens in consciousness and you are the root, the source, the foundation of consciousness. The world is but a succession of experiences and you are what makes them conscious, and yet remain beyond all experience. It is like the heat, the flame and the burning wood. The heat maintains the flame, the flame consumes the wood. Without heat there would be neither flame not fuel. Similarly, without awareness there would be no consciousness, nor life, which transforms matter into a vehicle of consciousness. - Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Excerpt from the book: I am That. Chapter 80. Via Dear Sir Manoj Sethi 💙