Just Witnessing: No Sin, No Virtue

Dr.Sudhansu Dash

The state of witnessing is neither happiness nor unhappiness, neither this nor that. If one feels joy, it is that one is identified and witnessing is gone. If one feels sad also one is no more a witness. One has to become uninvolved in the either. Witnessing is transcendence beyond the two opposites the two poles. One who has defined witnessing as a joy, has fallen again in the world of dualities.

The state of witnessing remains indefinable, and when defined it is not there, It cannot even tolerate the slightest intellectual interpretation. The word that can be used with an apology for this state is “Absolute Void” but one should not conceptualize it as negative. It is not even positive. It simply means one is alone but not lonely. It is a state full of emptiness that blossoms in one’s’ Being’. It just like the state of a mirror reflecting whatever is the case. Joy passes by and the mirror reflects it, but the mirror does not become the joy itself. It never gets itself identified. Sadness comes and the mirror also reflects it not identified with sadness in the same manner. The mirror has no prejudice against it. It is neither friendly to joy nor inimical to sadness, no liking, no disliking, It simply reflects. It should not also be conceived that the mirror is neutral. Otherwise it would not reflect. It is not indifferent even because indifference means it is prejudiced and have a certain conclusion. It is neither interested nor disinterested. It is transcendence.

Witnessing is a state of just relating, not relationship. It is a fluid phenomenon. When somebody reaches this awareness .one naturally feels a great compassion. In the state of compassion , one can see people stumbling in the dark, suffering unnecessarily , creating their own nightmare their own hell and drowning in their own created hell. The common man even justifies his own ignorance but the witness cannot because it has no experience as there is no experiencer.It has only eyes.

A light is only an experience and there is no logic in it, only one needs eyes. These eyes are attained when one has gone beyond the mind, when one has become an witness of mind a higher state than psychology, when one knows that one is not his own thoughts. The energy that reflects is the energy, capable of just seeing. There one transformed to a pure seeing.

When this state comes a great compassion happens. Here no communication is possible as the vehicle of communication is nothing but words and words are but the only tricky things. When one says something to somebody and it reaches the other person, it is his own power how to interpret it. Therefore it is not a matter of communication but communion .Each piece of cloud is different from the other, but when there is no cloud at all then the whole sky is one and the same. Minds are bound to be different because it consists of thoughts and the moment one transcends the mind, there is no difference left. How could there be difference between two absolute voids as they have no boundary. So there is no witnessing in communication, it is in communion. It is the only state where there is no sin ,no virtue as it transcends all dualities. A mirror never communicates, it communes. It is not even a manner of communication, but only the commune.

Lecturer in English

Shreedhara Swamy college of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha,INDIA.