' The Perceiver '...

Who is the perceiver?

Universal Consciousness alone is the perceiver.

The body is merely the mechanism through which perceiving takes place and from which the ego is inferred as the perceiver of other objects.

Strictly speaking, there is neither the perceiver nor the perceived.

There is only perceiv-ing as the objective expression of the subjective functioning of the one Universal Consciousness.

The notion of individual volition has been referred to as "the bite of the deadly serpent of ego" because it is the very root of the concept of bondage or unhappiness, and the only thing which can free man from its poison is the abandonment of his identification with a particular object as a 'me'.




A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org