Thread by @SriMspeaks

It is interesting to see how many images we create and live with. As a child, I have one image of myself. Then as an adolescent I cultivate another.
Probably imitating the images l admire, the matinee idols, the famous people,the brave adventurers, sometimes even terrorists.

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Some grow out of adolescence, some grow up but are still psychologically adolescent. Generally a new image is created to work, to marry, to have children, to save for the future ‘ad infinitum’.

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Then comes old age and the pains and aches and disappointments and unfulfilled desires. The image continues till death destroys all images.

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When one sees that the witness of all these images and stages seems to be the same conciousness, the Seer as distinct from the seen, what happens?

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Even before death erases the images, one begins to die to them. With the eye of meditation, one sees these images as mere phantoms imposed on the observer.

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The images then fall off and in that clarity the real Self, the pure witness is seen, the innately blissful one, who has no death and therefore no birth either.

This is the Brahman of the Upanishads.

Sri M

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