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Quotes on Witness & Doer

“The embodied ‘I’ was witnessed by another ‘I’ principle at the time of this perception, action or enjoyment. It is this witnessing ‘I’ that is the real ‘I.’ Fixing attention there, and establishing oneself in it, one becomes freed from bondage.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“Knowledge objectified is thought. Then the ‘I’ remains as the witness of thought. Without My being seen as the witness, thought is joined to Me and I am made the thinker by living beings. And subsequently, the thinker is made the physical perceiver and then the corresponding thought becomes a gross object. Thus living beings make of Me the world, and ignoring Me, live in bondage.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“I am always standing behind you disinterestedly witnessing your varied activities. You can see Me so without much effort. As soon as you turn behind to see Me, I will take you into the inmost core of your being and there you will see Me. Later on, you will see Me in your thoughts and feelings. Still later, you will see that the thoughts and feelings are none other than Myself. Since all objects are mere thought-forms, they will also be seen in the end as Myself. Then you will not see Me different from yourself. Your claim that you are I will become true only when you reach that state.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“Only one who, right through, maintains a disinterested witness’s standpoint and examines things calmly with a critical and never-faltering eye, can realise this absolute Truth.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“I alone shine as the undisturbed peace and happiness. I am the inmost principle which is Sat-Chit-Ananda itself. I am That which transcends all. Just before and just after every thought and feeling, I shine in My own glory by Myself. It is in Me that thoughts and feelings rise and set. I am their changeless Witness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“The ‘I’ does not change. The ‘I’ persists in all states. It is there when there is thought. It is there when there is no thought. If so, what other evidence is needed to show that it cannot be the doer or enjoyer, which means change? At the time a thing is being done, there is no thought or feeling that one is doing it. This is further proof that one is not the doer. Claiming to have done a thing after the doing cannot make one the doer. The intense feeling that one is neither the doer nor enjoyer removes all bondage and one’s real nature comes to light thereby.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“I have no mine-ness, attachment or egoism. I am eternal, non-doer, all purity, self-dependent and self-luminous. Attributeless, changeless and unconditioned, I am the abode of Love, stainless, the one without second and ever peaceful.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“I am no doer, I am no enjoyer. I am pure consciousness which knows no dissolution.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“The non-doer-Consciousness is always ‘enjoying’ Itself