The
witness, the observer, divides the world into subject and object,
into the witness and the witnessed. Therefore as long as there is a
witness, duality will continue. Witnessing is the last frontier of
the dual world, after which the non-dual begins. But one cannot
reach the non-dual without being a witness. To be a witness means
that I now give up dividing the world into many. Instead I will
divide it into two - the witness and the witnessed. And when I have
reduced the many fragments of the world to two, it will not be
difficult to come to the complete unity of existence when duality
will disappear, when the observer and the observed will become one
and the same. If one succeeds in becoming a witness he will soon
have glimpses of the one without the other, when there is neither
the witness nor the witnessed, but only witnessing.
For example, if I love someone there is one who loves and another
who is loved. But if love is real, then moments will come when both
the lover and the loved one will disappear, and only the energy of
love will abide between the two, connecting them. There will be
moments when lovers disappear and only love remains. These are the
moments of adwait, the non-dual, moments of unity - the one without
the other.
In the same way there are moments of unity in witnessing too, when
subject and object disappear and only the witnessing consciousness
remains, like an ocean of energy bridging two formless entities -
the witness and the witnessed - like two distant sea-shores. The
near shore is called the ′I′ and the distant shore the ′thou′, one
is the observer and the other the observed. Such moments will come
and go.
And when this state achieves its fullness it will abide forever, and
then even witnessing will disappear. Then one is settled in
intelligence, steadied in wisdom; one is whole.