Just being a watcher, a witness is insight. Witness is highest growth of consciousness. If there is no witnessing and we indulge in events we are in dark night of soul. Waking mode of mind looks so real and tangible to us and we never doubt events in waking mode and the entity which sees the events. Doubt is part of dark night, but it is a search for rising Sun, but once you have reached the rising Sun, dark night goes and with it doubt too. Self- inquiry is doubting the seer, the "me", the ego, the self. Once you know doubt, ego commits suicide on its own accord. Doubt that is written in scripture, otherwise you will be confusion. Truth has to be experienced, not believed. So all belief systems are illusions. Organized religions are organized belief systems and so they are illusions. If you seek for reward you will miss the fact. You are a collection of problems and it is a fact. Enlightenment is way of extinction of of problems which have their origin in Self- ignorance. Practicing everything without sense of attainment is profound transcendent wisdom which cuts of source of cycle of birth and death like a sword. The source is identity with sensations which occur to us. Enlightenment is third eye that looks inwards with awareness which can be recognized only by those who have looked a little inwards. Trying to attain Self creates anxiety and tension. We pay attention to wrong things in objective reality. We don't pay attention to movement of own self and its mechanics of functioning which is right attention. Thoughts belong to nature, so known and they are material in nature and so they are limited. We are using thought to solve every human problem through thought which is intrinsically limited and so divisive. Naturally thought cannot solve all human problems. Thought has a lace in solving physical problems. Being a response of memory it cannot solve a living problem in psyche but we are using thought for this purpose also making the things much more complicated and the present condition of society is the proof for it. Society is based on sense of separation, ambition, greed, violence, fear, desire, pleasure, fragmentary outlook of life. So we have to take leap from thought which is known to unknowable and for that leap, meditation is the jumping board and meditation is state of mind in which there is no-thought. There is cessation thought activity in meditation. Meditation is non- discriminative awareness without judgment, evaluation but mind is discriminative awareness with judgment and evaluation because primarily it is meant for physical and dead things. So at psychological level we require witnessing consciousness and at physical level we require discriminative awareness in form of thought. Mind knows only one language-that is of fear, danger, how to survive and make yourself safe against an antagonistic universe.
About the Author: The author, Dr.P.V.S.Suryanarayana Raju is a pediatrician from Andhra Pradesh, India, born on 12th December 1950. He has been working on the subject of self-inquiry for the past 30 years under the living Presence and guidance of Osho and Ramana Maharshi which he discovered 30 years ago in Ramanasramam. He met Osho personally in 1987 and 1989 in whose presence there happened radical transformation of being.He is a frequent visitor to Ramanasramam and out of gratefulness to Bhagawan he has written many books analyzing his teachings and these are some of them: The Art of self-enquiry, Alpha and Omega of self-inquiry, The essence of self-inquiry part 1 & 2, Insights in self-inquiry Part 1 & 2, Theory of self-inquiry, The Practice of self-inquiry, The theory and Practice of self-inquiry, The comprehensive book on self-inquiry, Know Thyself, He also wrote self-inquiry quotes in two volumes, commented on "who am i", Upadesa saram, Bhagavad Gita, self-inquiry in Bhavad Gita, Beyond Religion, The Art of living and all are products of his own experience. He has also written many books on Self-inquiry in Telugu which include "Nenevadanu? which is a commentary of his on "who am i" in Telugu, Nija Vicharana and his most recent books in Telugu Vichara Chudamani, and Vichara Chandrodayam which mainly deal with the practical aspect of self-inquiry and he explains in them why self-inquiry is a direct and easy way for realizing the Self. He also wrote self-inquiry in Bhagavad Gita in 3 volumes, Bhagavad Gita commentary vol1, The essence of Bhagavad Gita, Beware of structure of society-it enslaves you, Gold nuggets, Inner conflict leads to outer disorder, Integral self-inquiry, Self-inquiry is the Art of comprehending the self activity, Self-inquiry is the Art of being with your Self, Self-inquiry quotes of Dr.Raju and most recently, A B C of spirituality, The genesis of self-inquiry, Self-inquiry-The science of soul, Pathless path-The Golden path of self-inquiry, Introduction to self-inquiry, Original facelessness, Awareness-The means and goal of self-inquiry, Despair to bliss-The message of Bhagawad Gita, New man is emerging with a new way of life, Self-inquiry is the Art of being with your Self, The Sage and the scien