TO IDENTIFY WITH THIS 'WITNESS' IS TO END THE THRALDOM ÓF THE 'EGO'.

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Chapter-2.

Mantram-4.


Pratibodha-viditam   matam   amrtatvam   hi   vindate,

Atmana   vindate   viryam   vidyaya   vindate mrtam.


Meaning:-

"Indeed, he attains immortality, who intuits it in and through every modification of the mind. Through the Atma he obtains real strength, and through knowledge, immortality."


Explanation:-

A dynamic witness-

A Absolute Truth presiding in us as the Self is 'known well' only when it is knowingly understood as the witness of the three states of Consciousness.

" A witness is one who is standing apart from the incident and who witnesses and views   the incident without in any sense taking part in it. The witness has not even any interest in the incident nor has any prejudice against it. Unmoved and uninterested, a witness beams on the passing panorama in front of him."

Similarly  if Truth, the Self, were to retain Its status as the Eternal, the Immortal, the All-pervading. It has to be a non-doer and a non-enjoyer ....a mere dynamic witness.


There is an unchanging entity in us who experiences all our waking-life, dream-world, and the sleep-bliss. The waking-state Ego, the Mr. so-and-so entity, is not in the dream-world. But on waking up from the dream, he remembers that he had dreamt. That factor  in us, in consultation with which we have this continuity of awareness and personality, through the different fields of consciousness, is the All-Witnessing- Atma.        

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