Drik Drishya Viveka

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The Seer-Seen discrimination, is the first key towards realisation of the non dual truth that is PURE CONSCIOUSNESS.

The whole of Vedanta is based on uniting with the Seer (Turiya beyond the three states of sleep, dream, and waking) and realise the non dual reality of the Seeing-Seer-Seen being the non dual advaita atma.

Drig-Drishya Viveka is a Vedantic treatise of Shri Shankaracharya consisting of 64 verses, inquiring into the nature of the ‘Seer’ (Drig) and the ‘Seen’ (Drishya). An inquiry which is of utmost importance for understanding the conclusions of the Vedanta philosophy that our perceptions pertain to the non-Self. The immutable Seer is indeed the Self. Scriptures proclaim only discrimination between Self and non-Self.

Anyone interested to buy the book can do so at:

Chennaimath.org: Drg Drishya Viveka

The most relevant part of the text Drig Drishya Viveka (The Seer Seen Discrimination) is quoted below from a translation by Shri Ramana Maharshi:

Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi: Drik Drisya Viveka

The world we see, being seen by the eye, is drisya (object);

the eye which sees it is drik (subject). But the eye, being perceived by the mind is drisya (object) and the mind which sees it is drik (subject).

The mind, with its thoughts perceived by the Self, is drisya (object) and the Self is drik (subject).

The Self cannot be drisya (object), not being perceived by anything else.
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3. The identification of the ego with the witness is due to ignorance.

More material on the Seer Seen discrimination are below:

Drig Drishya Viveka - Arsha Bodha Center
Seer-Seen Discrimination

 

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Two most important links, IMO, are separately shown here:

As text:

Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi: Drik Drisya Viveka

Some may like this video presentation:

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Adi Sankaracharya's DRG DRSYA VIVEKA - WISDOM OF SEER & THE SEEN - YouTube

Best wishes.

 

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Nisargadatta Maharaj--Carrasco's Excerpts from the book I Am That

To become free, your attention must be drawn to the 'I am', the witness. Of course, the knower and the known are one, not two, but to break the spell of the known the knower must be brought to the forefront. Neither is primary, both are reflections in memory of the ineffable experience, ever new and ever now, unstranslatable, quicker than the mind. (424)

They [the person and the witness] appear to be two, but on investigation they are found to be one. Duality lasts as long as it is not questioned. The trinity: mind, self, spirit (vyakti, vyakta, avyanta) , when looked into, becomes unity. These are only modes of experiencing: of attachment, of detachment, of transcendence. (363)