the witness is the door

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Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep.

Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.

Whatever depends, is not real. The real is truly independent. Since the existence of the person depends on the existence of the world and it is circumscribed and defined by the world, it cannot be real.

As long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of consciousness, you will be at peace – immersed in the deep silence of reality.

The source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source.

The witness-consciousness is the reflection of the real in the mind. The real is beyond. The witness is the door through which you pass beyond.
 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I Am That, 1973

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You are the solitary Witness of All That Is,

Forever Free.

Your only bondage is not seeing this.

—Ashtavakra Gita

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