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Swami Sarvapriyananda clarifies the subtle differences between the mind and the witness consciousness. This video is part of a Q&A from May 27, 2018.
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Pain is also a thought in the mind.. that means..no mind = no experience. Assume, a person is given anaesthesia, he won't experience pain. Anything in your awareness is a thought in your mind.
Hazar bachhar dhare chiner sange samparko.
Samparkoi roilo.
If so ,mind can go without witness.
Witnesses grow consciousness.
I am sorry, could someone be able to summarize and simplify the answer into better understanding? English not my native tongue. Very interesting in parts I can understands
Convincing explanation
TU
Introspection and witness clearly explained
It is consciousness vs consciousness all the way.
🙏🙏🙏 Guruji .
Witness consciousness is called by Krishnamurti choicesless awareness.
My deep gratitude Swamiji…..
善哉 善哉（great great!）
Thanks alot swami ..
Thank you so much Swami.
But Osho says that if the consciousness expands to a certain level u can seperate the body sleeping from the witness consciousness. Seems like it was Buddha who first introduced the concept of witnessing the sleep.
The topic is complex for me. Let me ask a doubt. Suppose i am in a class and instead of listening to the lecture i am just focused on swiddling my pen. So my consciousness is fixed on my pen i. e. as i understand my witness consciousness is absorbed in the act of swiddling my pen. The voice of the lecture is still there but my consciousness is not witnessing it? So isnt my witness consciousness narrow??? A very big thanks in advance to whoever answers this. question
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
I don’t get it. ☹️
Becoz every spiritual practice even goal of samadhi and moksha is about mind…. may be mind enabling itself to go there. While real you is already in samadhi and moksha!
how would swami explain sages who are aware of their body sleeping??
Thank you I need full part
Anyone help me please
The problem is the “I” that thinks it has a problem. Drop the I
The awareness(which is without attributes) willingly assumes the attribute of witnessing for the sake of experience. When awareness or consciousness relieves itself from it's witnessing quality it stands shining alone as the one that lights up all witnessing. There is no witness without the witnessed
I am struggling with this question currently.
The question is, "Why can't be in witness consciousness in deep sleep state, I have no sense of it, why?" Since the witness consciousness is present in deep sleep, we should be able to know, even if there is no object to be aware of. I should experience the bliss state of Samadhi. Why don't I? Swami Ji didn't answer that question. He told a whole bunch of stories that had nothing to do with the question. Can you please answer the question Swami Ji? I don't want to know what introspection is, I already know that. I want to know the answer to the question. Please, it's been a year. Thank you.
great clip! thanks
Om shanti
"whatever I do is the mind, what notices that?" the answer is: this is me observing myself obviously. Mate! there is no bloody consciousness. What strange philosophy is being discussed 👎👎👊👊?
Answer ends with same question itself. It's the mind noticing the mind.
One of the best answers I got while seeking myself… It's completely changed my opinion in who is watching what
Jai!
It would seem that I have dug a very big hole for myself!
My best ideology
I am aware that I am aware of something. Is it consciousness? Expect an answer from any member.
Swamiji Pranam
What is life ? Just different experience you go through , with time goes away , you became old , can not do any thing what you missed to do thing what you want to finished ?
And of the life if you are lucky you get help from spiritual person , then realize, what you missed ? No way to go back !
What is life ? Swamiji ?
OM
❤️
Good Q&A, thank you. If you find not quite satisfactory explanation about witness consciousness during a deep sleep, another great guy Rupert Spira answer may fit in: https://youtu.be/8Um7U9Aquxg .
This is the crucial issue, whether AV is a bunch of beautiful but mere philosophical ideas or the living experience and final liberation of human problems. It can not have any dependent origin due to its noumenological nature, so even the most clever intellectual reasoning or deepest faith can not substitute it due their limitations and impermanence. The tragi-comedy of life, the laws of karma in our relative world also determine who attain this enlightenment by freeing itself from totality of mind. Even actions tend to positive karma are fully under laws of former cause-effect chains.
It is easy to concentrate the mind on external things, the mind naturally goes outwards; but not so in the case of religion, or psychology, or metaphysics, where the subject and the object, are one. The object is internal, the mind itself is the object, and it is necessary to study the mind itself — mind studying mind -Raja yoga,
Swami Vivekananda