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Is It Possible For The Mind & Witness To Co-Exist? Witness = Absolute Awareness = Consciousness

by Ekta Bathija

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Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

MindAwarenessConsciousnessAdvaitaNon DualityExperiential UnderstandingTruthAttentionFocused AttentionControl AttentionTamasicWitnessing

Transcript

Te covert Yes,

It is.

What you are mixing up is you are mixing up mind's attention with awareness.

What is mind's attention?

Let's understand that.

When we take up some book to read,

We focus,

We are focusing the mind's attention on the particular paragraph to read that paragraph.

But there is a knower knowing that the mind is focusing attention to read the paragraph.

Is this clear?

So mind's attention is different from awareness or knowingness or witnessing.

Witnessing is there all the time.

Witnessing cannot be complete and partial.

No,

Witnessing is always what witnessing is.

Yes,

It's always full.

It's always there.

You cannot say the sun's light is not there in the night.

It is there.

You are on the wrong side of the world.

Do you get it?

Yes.

Yeah.

So that's all that happens.

It is the awareness is like the sun.

It is always there.

Mind's attention increases or decreases depending on the quality of the mind.

A tamasic mind cannot have a lot of focus like at 11,

12 in the night.

You cannot focus on reading anymore.

You're like,

Okay,

I'm done.

You get it.

It's just depending on the quality of the mind and that is called mind's attention.

The knower knows that the mind is right now very sleepy and cannot focus.

Its attention is reduced.

Super clear.

Super clear.

Super clear.

Super clear.

Super clear.

Meet your Teacher

Ekta BathijaSt. George, USA

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