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The Eternal Message Of The Gita-The Seer And The Seen-V
Now
that
we
have
made
it
our
objective
to
obtain
the
highest
knowledge,
we
find
that
we
are
prevented
from
doing
so
by
our
psychological
automatisms.
That
is
why
we
have
to
accomplish,
indefatigably,
the
inner
work
which
our
intellectual
intuition
calls
forth
and
encourages.
At
the
same
time
this
inner
work
is
bound
to
end
in
an
impasse.
The
words
spoken
by
Sri
Ramakrishna
in
this
context
are
most
significant:
'When
will
I
be
free?—When
the
"I" ceases
to
be.'
Now,
then,
it
is
not
just
through
an
analysis
of
the
mental
processes
that
this
'I'
will
go.
On
the
contrary,
the
more
it
is
studied,
the
more
it
asserts
itself.
It
is
only
through
a
rigorous
enquiry
that
we
shall
be
able
to
grasp
our
experiences
as
an
integral
whole,
and
not
as
a
combination
of
different
fragments.
The
metaphysical
intuition
is
an
'infused'
knowledge
which
comes
with
the
letting
go
of
the
ego,
when
everything
has
been
renounced.
(Gita,
18.66)
After letting go of the ego, only one vision remains: that of the Lord, that of the Kshetrajna who is behind all the Kshetras, including our ego. The power of ignorance (avidya) is employed to direct our attention to 'name' and 'form' (nama-rupa) which are constantly changing, and the reality then seems to be divided into innumerable 'seens'. To the sage, however, there is no such multiplicity in the 'seen', and his vision is not attended by mental tension. If the ordinary vision may be compared to a circle, the centre of which is fixed, while its circumference represents the infinity of objects perceived, the vision of the sage, on the other hand, does not have a centre. Or rather, its centre is everywhere and its circumference nowhere, according to the expression of Pascal which was frequently quoted by Swami Vivekananda.
In this perspective the apparent conflict between the 'seen' and the 'seer' is solved. The Kshetrajna is the metaphysical 'reality', the akshara, the Lord. Remaining in each 'seen', the 'seer', 'That which does not perish, when all has perished,' is the infinite possibility of 'seens'. Shankara says that 'our experience of the world is a continuous perception of Brahman'.
About the author
Swami Siddheswarananda (1897-1957) was a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and for twenty years until his death, the spiritual head of the Centre Vedantique Ramakrichna at Gretz, France. This commentary of the learned Swami on the various themes of the Gita was orginally published in French in the 'Bulletin of the Centre Vedantique' during 1955-57. This article is the fifth instalment of a series of about a dozen articles, each independent in itself. English translation and editing was done by Mr. Andre van den Brink.
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