The ‘Seer’ can never be the ‘Seen’. The subject can never become the object. But the most subtle and salient point is that there is no object, ‘the ‘Seen’ at all.
The Soul is the Seer and the dualistic illusion is the Seen. The dualistic illusion appears as the ‘I'. the ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).
In reality, the ‘Seer’ and ‘Seen’ are created out of a single clay. that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
There is no duality in reality because there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Thus the consciousness alone is real and eternal the ‘I’ is an illusion. The illusion has no value in reality.
The Seer and the Seen.
The Seer is the subject and Seen is an object.
The Seer is the Soul, the innermost Self.
The Seen is the ‘I'.
The ‘I’ appears and disappears.
The Soul sees the appearance and disappearance of the ‘I’.
The Soul is permanent and real.
The ‘I’ is impermanent because it appears and disappears.
This is your bondage, that you hold the Self as the ‘I'.
That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent (consciousness) is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)
The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16
Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)
~ then why you are sticking to a Guru who is not a Gnani.
Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false leads truth realization.
Atman is Brahman. The Atman is the innermost Self is non-dual because there is no second thing that exists other than the Atman. Atman is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the only true reality, and everything else, which appears as form, time, and space is merely an illusion.
There is nothing that exists prior to consciousness. The ‘I’ cease to exist without consciousness. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
