Is Stillness The Same As Knowingness?

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

Transcript

Who created the issue in the city of 307 in Slave Yes, That is the knowingness. That stillness that you're calling stillness. That is the knower. It knows that right now, Sainath is looking at a computer screen. Yeah, Do you see that? Yeah, The mind is doing inside and then you are saying through the lips. There is somebody knowing that the mind is first in agreement and then the head is nodding. Do you see the knower? Do you recognize that knower? It's somewhere in the background. At least to begin with on the path, We find the knower in the background and it is very still. It just knows. Right? Yeah, So you know the knower. You cannot see the knower. You can know the knower. You can experience the knower. Okay, Okay. How do you know if you are happy or sad? Who is happy or sad? Do the eyes become happy or sad? Do the ears become happy or sad? So on the body, You don't see the sadness or happiness in yourself. So where do you experience it? Somewhere in the mind. The mind becomes happy or sad. Who knows that right now Sainath is happy? Yeah, The knower. That stillness. Yeah, That which you're calling the stillness. That is the knower. Okay, Okay. If I'm in the stillness and then it takes a fraction of seconds to recollect. Like it takes some time to okay what is happening? If it is in the stillness and then to come back, There is a small amount of recollect. Recollection is needed. Yeah, Initially yes. Yes, Initially yes. Okay. Yeah, With practice slowly slowly you will start being in the stillness. Okay, Okay. You will be there very steady. You will notice that you are stillness. Slowly, Slowly the stillness expands. Yeah, It becomes almost like a void. Very quiet, Very still and everything happens in that void. There is no more shuttling between like it's happening right now for you. Foreground and background. Yeah, There is no foreground and background. Everything happens in that stillness. The thoughts in the mind arise in that stillness. The feelings arise in that stillness and then they go away in that stillness. So there is stillness that knowingness is who I am.