What is Witness Consciousness? | Sri M | Bharat Yogavidya Kendra

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@MRM-9 8 ай бұрын

Upanishads says clearly that Observer observed and observing are all same not different. The feeling of them being different from each other is the maya. When that understanding dawns upon, only silence remains and in that silence the truth shines on its own.

@Pavan1007 8 ай бұрын

Very well said ❤

@maitreyabadra2267 4 ай бұрын

@@Pavan1007 I wonder why Sri M couldn't say it just like this?

@texastexas4541 4 ай бұрын

"Upanishads says clearly that Observer observed and observing are all same not different.. The feeling of them being different from each other is the maya." There is a fundamental problem with what you are saying here. "I am witnessing the thought. Mind is watching my wind (Observer and observed)." If you think (or feeling as you put it) they are the same, then that is also a thought. At 5:00. BYK actually explains it well. THREE important POINTS: Observer (you with many contents in your mind that creates falseness of the world), observed (object) and pure consciousness (beyond mind, no attributes of any kind. Since it is beyond mind, you cannot even think of it). Through intense practice, when you realize that both the observer and the observed do not exist, then there is only silent witness (pure consciousness). They call this pure Atman or Brahman. (non-dual because there is no real difference between Atman and Brahman). When the observer and observed disappear, the world as you know disappears. All mind contents, thoughts, images, memory, perception etc etc gone. Only the pure consciousness remains. In this state, there is no judgement of any kind, no perception of any kind and no hearing or any sensation etc etc. Just SILENCE. Now the important question is, "Is there such a thing as pure Consciousness?" Nobody in the past has ever either tried to answer that question or remained SILENT (Ramana Maharshi). Some say it is pure fiction and some say you have to experience it. If you somehow train your mind to reach a state where you lose the sense of 'Self' in which there is a sense of disappearance of the observer and observed, one may think that they have experienced pure consciousness. There is no way a subjective experience can be empirically tested. There is no proof for this Silent Witness. At best we can call this an untested hypothesis. It is metaphysics. According to strict adherents of this philosophy, one is not even supposed to say "I have experienced it or I am enlightened" because that would negate their assertion, as they are using their memory to make that statement. In other words, it is an experience (a mind thing) that they have. If it is an experience, your mind and memory are involved and that means there was no disappearance of the observer and observed in those who claimed to be enlightened. Simply put, you cannot say "I experienced enlightenment, he experienced it, he told me he did, I felt one with the universe, I experienced Brahman, I felt it briefly, I experienced it briefly, I experience oneness several times a day etc." If you recall that 'thing' then it is memory. If it is in your memory (mind), you experienced it. YOU DO NOT EXPERIENCE such a thing. Supposedly, you only realize pure consciousness when the observer and the observed disappear. In that state, your mind is absent. Therefore, whatever that experience you had cannot be a part of your mind. You will not be able to recall it. If you recall it with pride and some excitement, then you are fooling yourself and others. Everything emanates from the pure Consciousness, and it is infinite (it is everything). Falseness (primitive mind, preconditioning, and Whatsapp university) makes us believe that we are separate or that Jiv Atman is separate from Pure Consciousness or Brahman. Pure consciousness (Brahman) is the Subject, and your mind is the object in this case. An object can never know a subject. This also means that NOBODY can know this Brahman or NOBODY is truly enlightened ever.

@MRM-9 4 ай бұрын

@@texastexas4541 the point is there is no object nor subject. That is the play of maya. There is only 'being'. There is no destination to reach because there is no where to go other than the 'being'. You are THAT already.

@texastexas4541 4 ай бұрын

@@MRM-9 Subject and object are mentioned for discussion purpose only. All else is quite obvious.

@kurubalanrengaraju8528 8 ай бұрын

Sri M unpacks JK’s observer is the observed in simple easy to follow explanation 🙏Pranams

@vinayakamath1459 7 күн бұрын

J K: while observing, looking at, become aware of space between observer & observed ( that space is Time) . That space ie; " ideas & beliefs " which is past prevents Me to look at the object. So first we have to empty the mind which is Known . Thanks 🙏

@santoshkale4647 19 күн бұрын

Guruji is looking 'ROCKSTAR' in the long white hairs and fine cotton white shirt!!! Pranam Guruji!!!🙏🙏🙏

@wanderalongwith9173 3 ай бұрын

Looking very handsome, guruji! May you bless us all! Jai Shri Guru Babaji!

@anvb7838 8 ай бұрын

Humble salutations to Guru Deva and God 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🪷🪷🪷🌸🌸🌸

@rajithacheviri4389 8 ай бұрын

ഓം ഹ്രീം ശ്രീ ഗുരുഭ്യോ നമഃ 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@siddharthjoshi615 8 ай бұрын

🌲Om Hreem Shri Gurubhyo Namah🌳🌿🌸🌹🙏

@nikethannikethan6997 8 ай бұрын

Wow, i understood what is observer is observed which j.krishnamurti used to say

@ronidutta Ай бұрын

Eye opener 🙏

@YetAnotherOrdinaryGuy 8 ай бұрын

So simple yet so brilliant. However, I still can't fully understand how consciousness creates reality. That everything exists only because of a conscious observer...quantum physics has proved this beyond any doubt.

@frankz4900 Ай бұрын

Thank you Sri M

@neerajamb 8 ай бұрын

Wow. That was mind-blowing. Thank you Guru Sri M

@ShivohamGPS Ай бұрын

Extraordinary answer ❤❤🕉

@prabhakargovindaraju2568 8 ай бұрын

It's imperative to focus on focus so that one may have necessary focus to focus on one's goal. My intent is not to make some tongue twister but focus is all that we should become aware of. This is sadhana. 🙏

@souravchatterjee9418 8 ай бұрын

Pranam🙏

@shivanijani227 8 ай бұрын

Please, Upload some videos of yog asanas so that we can practice at home regularly. Thanks ! 😇

@bharatyogavidyakendra 7 ай бұрын

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@prajwaljoseph2351 8 ай бұрын

One gradually falls to the purposeless side of life which is its real nature ( witness) when it realises the futility of movements of the self.

@YetAnotherOrdinaryGuy 8 ай бұрын

The purpose of life is to be. Nothing more or less. There is no purposelessness to life. It simply is.

@prajwaljoseph2351 8 ай бұрын

@@YetAnotherOrdinaryGuy one is more of a mind . Life is now in the background

@vikramnavale 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful 🙏🏻

@ajaytalgeri133 8 ай бұрын

Humble pranaam to Sir.

@CaptRanjeetAk 3 ай бұрын

Perfect, thank you Guruji

@srirajavatsavaisaraswathi6246 10 күн бұрын

👌👌👌💐🙏🙏🙏💐❤️❤️

@NischalSagar-j2s 3 ай бұрын

Witness is a happening in consciousness . Awareness is a practice to the mind.Witness is beyond mind witness is an enlightened state,witness is a transcendental experience it’s a mystical experience .witness is happening in consciousness.

@arunasuresh384 7 ай бұрын

Pranaams 🙏

@gireeshneroth7127 8 ай бұрын

Consciousness is all there is. And differbeing itself as witness and whatever.

@Jacky-x81e 3 ай бұрын

the question, do you want to come to this point? therefore, you can easily say, it is a constructive question to performing perfektion.

@OrionConstellationHome 8 ай бұрын

🙏 Please upload the whole session. 🙏

@bharatyogavidyakendra 7 ай бұрын

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@asharajkumari8601 7 ай бұрын

Really wish Sir's face is not covered by the transcript. Communication is not just words. Its an energy transfer. Was hoping to look at his face and eyes as he said - " listen carefully" 🙏

@Srividhya1682 2 ай бұрын

You can turn off transcription on youtube, cc button. it's not on the video

@Rushi00777 Ай бұрын

You have the option to turn off captions under settings and you will be able to see sir clearly once it's turned off

@pawellemanski1866 7 ай бұрын

Experience and experiencer are one no different

@konnektlive 8 ай бұрын

The very essence (if we can even say that!) of the absolute reality seems to be (to us individual minds having mostly a canonical/linear view) paradoxical, only because it's beyond mind, beyond knowledge, and beyond knowing itself. Yes it's beyond even 'knowing', so the very common epistemological approach (e.g. reductionism/pragmatism) isn't going to work here, simply because the very source of knowledge, where knowledge and knowing come from cannot itself be known, logic 101. Hence, the absolute reality always remains ineffable and beyond language. It's that pointless point which is at the same time fully transcendent from all phenomenons, and yet immanent in all such phenomenons. Even Sat Cit Ananda isn't enough, or sufficient to even get close to the very nature of The One. Beyond numbers, beyond knowledge, beyond being and non-being, and beyond imagination, there is a no-thingness that contains, and manifests as all things, while remaining no-thing...

@ganeshnh 8 ай бұрын

You have to become that to know it. Depends on IT😊

@Flash11111 8 ай бұрын

Just have faith till your last breath 😊

@mahakala 4 күн бұрын

everything we know of the world is through the brain. so the brain cannot know itself?

@majeedvm-dx6sb 8 ай бұрын

J krishna murti

@user-cq2uw7co4w 15 күн бұрын

Just be it…🙏🏻

@kubotwostringz 7 ай бұрын

Hello 🙏 English subtitles seem to be in a hurry - they're not properly synced with the audio. I know it can be a lot of work to fix this, but like this it's not of much use, imo. It's difficult to follow what the Master is saying when I'm reading words and sentences from "the future", which are in front of my eyes.

@bharatyogavidyakendra 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your feedback. We are working on making our videos and subtitles more apt and user-friendly.

@kubotwostringz 7 ай бұрын

@@bharatyogavidyakendra Thank you for listening and taking constructive feedback. I hear that's rare nowadays 🙂 I wish that you're easily able to sync the audio with the captions, and may Master's teachings reach many. 🙏

@maheshchandagarwal1847 8 ай бұрын

Observer is the observed! Jk

@BharatSSahni-pt1le 8 ай бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕

@tonymarriott8480 8 ай бұрын

The mind can only know some thing it cannot know no thing

@rajukunjukrishnan472 8 ай бұрын

Mandukya upanishad clearly indicate that you are not waker with waking experience, you are not the dreamer, you are not the deep sleeper, you are the witness of all this States and that is Atma. That atma is the consciousness unchanging, who is Brahman. Tat vam asmi.

@trivikram1988 8 ай бұрын

🙏🙇🙏

@ushmamankad4707 4 ай бұрын

When we experience, we are conscious, mindful. When we need to describe, we need to move away from that state. Possibly that is why, that is how it is far and near ; it is within and yet exists outside??

@adityamehtax 8 ай бұрын

🙏🏼

@tewatiaanupama 8 ай бұрын

❤🙏

@texastexas4541 4 ай бұрын

Now the important question is, "Is there such a thing as pure Consciousness?" Nobody in the past has ever either tried to answer that question or remained SILENT (Ramana Maharshi). Some say it is pure fiction and some say you have to experience it. If you somehow train your mind to reach a state where you lose the sense of 'Self' in which there is a sense of disappearance of the observer and observed, one may think that they have experienced pure consciousness. There is no way a subjective experience can be empirically tested. There is no proof for this Silent Witness. At best we can call this an untested hypothesis. It is metaphysics. According to strict adherents of this philosophy, one is not even supposed to say "I have experienced it or I am enlightened" because that would negate their assertion, as they are using their memory to make that statement. In other words, it is an experience (a mind thing) that they have. If it is an experience, your mind and memory are involved and that means there was no disappearance of the observer and observed in those who claimed to be enlightened. Simply put, you cannot say "I experienced enlightenment, he experienced it, he told me he did, I felt one with the universe, I experienced Brahman, I felt it briefly, I experienced it briefly, I experience oneness several times a day etc." If you recall that 'thing' then it is memory. If it is in your memory (mind), you experienced it. YOU DO NOT EXPERIENCE such a thing. Everything emanates from the pure Consciousness, and it is infinite (it is everything). Falseness (primitive mind, preconditioning, and Whatsapp university) makes us believe that we are separate or that Jiv Atman is separate from Pure Consciousness or Brahman. Pure consciousness (Brahman) is the Subject, and your mind is the object in this case. An object can never know a subject. This also means that NOBODY can know this Brahman or NOBODY is truly enlightened ever.

@pvgopiabnle 2 ай бұрын

You nailed it👍. Pure consciousness/Bhrahman / THAT is only a concept.

@zianniculae6700 8 ай бұрын

❤️💚💙🌹

@texastexas4541 4 ай бұрын

Witness consciousness does not listen to thoughts. It cannot. It is a silent witness, and it is said to luminate (whatever that means) your thoughts. One of the main problem with A Vedanta is that they say there are two types of consciousness; one that is vyavaharika (it interprets input to the brain and some call it the mind) and the second is pure witness, which is a silent witness which luminates your thoughts. This is why many get confused. What does one mean by luminate? If the vyavaharika consciousness already interpreted it, what is the purpose of lumination?