Meditation is Witnessing. To meditate is to witness, to become a witness. Meditation is a non-doing; doing nothing but witnessing.

When we become a witness, our mind is not required. Just to look at something, to witness it, the mind is not required. Mind is required only when we have to think about or analyse something. For simply looking at something or to remain a witness mind is not required.

For example when we sit and simply watch, or look at, or witness, a river flowing, the mind is not required. No mind is applied. River is flowing, doing its job, and I am only witnessing it. Seeing it flowing. That’s it. No mind application like why is it flowing, how it flows, where is the water coming from or going to etc.

In such a state of non-doing or witnessing when our mind stops, we get to witness our true nature of joy and freedom and that is our inner self or being. We feel utter relaxation when the mind is at rest.

In the beginning an effort is required for not doing something and simply witnessing. Our mind is so used to thinking all the time and analysing that it is quite difficult to make it to just witness and not think or analyse the situation. It is difficult for it to simply do nothing and keep on watching the river flowing without any thoughts going on inside!

Mind and witnessing can’t co-exist because witnessing is possible only in the present moment whereas mind is never in the present moment. It needs past or the future to think and hence survive.

Meditation gives us a witnessing eye with which we can go inside ourselves and look at our being, our true self or soul or consciousness. Names are many but meaning is one.

To see the outside, nature has given us two eyes but to see the inside we need to acquire or discover this witnessing eye, the third eye, to see inside our own self. Meditation gives us this eye.

With meditation we become aware of our true nature. And with continued mediation this awareness or alertness keeps on growing and a stage comes when we have the option to switch places anytime from outer to inner and vice versa. We can see both simultaneously!

A spiritual life is possible only with mediation. Spirituality is not in words but it’s inside us. And mediation is the only way to reach inside. Words are only the branches or the flowers but the root is meditation.