PATH OF PERCEIVER 

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You always say that universal perceiver is the way. But what is this universal perceiver? I have no idea about it.

Perceiver is the pathless path which takes you out from the prison of Private Person in the free land of peaceful pure presence.

The Perceiver is the end of all patterns of thoughts and all backgrounds of self-identification.

Perceiver is the inner path which naturally appears in you, when you completely disappear as a person. When your mind is empty of memories and desires, the very absence of thoughts allows the power of perceiver to arise and awake in you.

Do not you think that the perceiver is just another mind made thought within the realm of mind?

Thoughts cannot witness thoughts; it is the perceiver within you which is the centre of perception. Thoughts cannot help you go beyond thoughts. Perceiver is the only point which is relevant and revealing and can help you return to your source.

Perceiver is always untouched and unaffected by the play of perception. Whatever you may encounter, the purity and peace of the Perceiver remains the same in all circumstances.

It is the changeless centre of reality in you which has no name and form; it is the reflection of real in the still mind.

Is the perceiver part of my inherent personality?

Not at all.

Perceiver is the unlimited universal freedom beyond personality.

It is the power of pure presence without any trace of personal identity in it. As a Perceiver, you go beyond your personality and the process of personal judgement and continuous planning ends forever. You go beyond the whole mental pattern of fear and hope.

By giving up all ideas about yourself, you suddenly stumble upon yourself.

By not defining yourself through your thoughts and by not identifying yourself with your limited body and mind, the whole universe becomes the body of the Perceiver.

Why is there no trace of personal identity in the perceiver?

As a Perceiver, you are no more attached to your name and form and completely lose all self-concern. It is a state of being alive and alert like an infant without the trace of personal identity.

Perceiver is complete in itself, fully integrated within and without. As a Perceiver, you go beyond safe and secure mental projection and always abide in the unknown. As a Perceiver, the illusion of separation disappears and you become one with the whole.

As a matter of fact, you can only talk about the Private Person because the Perceiver can only be realized in deep silence and stillness.

Can we control and manage our practical life as a perceiver?

Direction of perceiver comes from within, from the silent spring of the source.

Perceiver responds to each event through his inner wisdom rather than outer memory-based knowledge.

Perceiver makes you soft and supple from the hard rigid private person, and you start flowing with total harmony in the duality of life.

 You embrace each moment as it comes with absolute acceptance. You reflect reality in each moment as a crystal-clear mirror; the routine practical thoughts, words and actions spontaneously appear and disappear in you, but your memory stays clear and empty all the time.

In the light of wisdom, you don’t feel any compulsion to follow anybody or to identify with any particular background. You naturally go beyond all the divisions of system, beyond all discriminations of the society and beyond all concepts and convictions of mind.

As a perceiver, instead of paying attention to your experiences, you pay all attention to the experiencer, and you realize that whatever you perceive is neither you nor yours.

So, you watch the play of perception without being affected by it. You feel no urge to interfere or control the flow of reality nor are you affected by the play of images nor do the images get affected by you.

Is the perceiver beyond space and time?

In a way, Yes.

The Perceiver always pulsates in the present moment immersed in deep silence. It is the timeless existence beyond space and time.

As a perceiver, you are undivided by your thoughts, unadulterated by your words and untouched by your actions. You are beyond all attributes of body and mind.

You simply accept this moment as the best and allow nature to take care of the rest.

As a perceiver, you stand fearless and free even in the midst of death as you are fully in tune with your unlimited universal existence. It is the door between the Known and the Unknown.

It is the real Guru within you which will take you back to your supreme source.

I have completely let go my existence as a private person. But I am not yet completely established in the state of universal perceiver.

Right now at this unknown stage, I feel extremely empty and bored which also scares me at times. To escape this blankness, sometimes I strongly feel like going back to my old familiar state of private person since it is known and comfortable. What do you think I should do?

Do Nothing.

Perceiver is the land of eternal emptiness; it is the middle state, where old is gone and new has not arrived yet – similar to the state of dawn where night of the person is gone but the light of pure presence is yet to emerge.

Do not become afraid of this state of no identity and do not get bored with this empty space. Instead, stay silent and still and delve deep into this emptiness as this is as far as any human can walk on the path of truth. 

Keep your cup of life empty.

At this last point, the purity of perceiver is tested by the peaceful pure presence and if your whole being is ready, the Supreme Source suddenly enters your heart unexpected and uninvited.

Beyond this point lies the land of serene silence.

You say that the perceiver is the path, but now it has become my final destination. Thank you for showing me my real existence beyond mind-made person. Now, I am in love with the peace and power of the perceiver as this is what I always wanted in life.

Remember, the Perceiver is the path, not the destination.

No matter how peaceful and powerful you feel as a Perceiver, sooner or later, you have to cross the door and leave it behind. Clinging to the door of Perceiver can become your last attachment and illusion which is equivalent to the prison of person.

I understand that through the door of Perceiver, you can clearly see the glimpse of your real home; but the door itself is not your home.

Once you go beyond the limited person and embrace your existence as an unlimited Perceiver, do not cling to it and make it your identity.

Remember – clinging to any form of identity is a play of mind.

First you asked me to go beyond the private person and now you are asking me to even go beyond the universal perceiver. I am totally confused now. What is it that you really want me to be?

I can understand your state of confusion, but you need to clearly recognize that the Perceiver rises with the person and disappears with it.

Prison of person and path of Perceiver are both states of attention in movement and at rest.

However, your natural state is the peaceful pure presence in which both the Person and the Perceiver appear and disappear.

This peaceful pure presence is not a state of mind; it is the supreme reality beyond all states.

To clear the confusion, let us look at this process like this. The person vanishes in the light of the Perceiver and the Perceiver vanishes in the light of peaceful pure presence.

This, my friend, is the ultimate journey of life force from bondage to freedom, from limited to unlimited and from the Known to the Unknown

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