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Sakshi Bhava
Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
Sakshi bhava or drashta bhava is the ability to observe yourself and maintain that state of awareness continuously for a long time. It is the state where you are able to say, ‘I am observing myself, I am observing my behaviour, I am the witness of my karmas, I am the witness of my thoughts, I am the witness of my ambitions, I am the witness of every experience of mine’.
Again, the mind has to be trained to observe itself. There is a trick here. When you think, ‘I want to become quiet’, who is the one doing the thinking? It is the mind that is thinking. It is the same mind which is agitated and which desires peace and quietness. It seems to be a paradox that the nature of the mind is to be active and move all the time, but the desire of the mind is to be still.
You have to pick up on the desire of the mind, not the nature of the mind. That is the secret. If you identify with the mental movement, you will follow the trains of thought, wherever they take you. If you identify with the idea of peace, you hold yourself back and remain connected to that idea. You can observe the movement of the mind by being at one place. That is the drashta bhava or sakshi bhava.
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