Apheida: All that contemplating, can it be good for you? What happens to an observer with all that watching of the world?
Ruphus: Self-realization. Ancient Indian Samkhya philosophy has two fundamental concepts. Purusha equals the perpetual observer, a witness. Prakriti equals Nature dancing, everything that exists – and distracts the observer.
Apheida: The
universe distracts an observational force from what?
Ruphus: From
realizing itself.
Apheida: So, the observer comes to observe themself. Yes, I refuse to genderize this pronoun today. English solves the grammar genderization problem with creative flexibility, with words like “them”, “they”, “it”, and “all”.
Ruphus: I witness myself. A perpetual observational phenomenon turns its “eyes” on itself.
Apheida:
Like a multi-eyed Bible-angel figure.
Ruphus: I
sense insanity in my brain when I try to wrap my head around that.
Apheida: It’s
the ouroboros phenomenon, the snake or dragon that bites its own tail.
Ruphus: A nexistential
carrousel.
Apheida: So,
what happens when Purusha realizes itself? It realizes itself as . . .
Ruphus: Nothing. “Where” Purusha “resides”, there is no self, no nature, no anything.
Apheida: Except for the figurative eyes,
the witnessing, the consciousness phenomenon, always watching, wishing, waiting.
Ruphus:
Definitely not wishing.
Apheida: Can someone be without desire, who must realize themself? Show me nothing! And maybe I’ll believe.
Ruphus: In
the meantime, we’ll keep observing then.
Apheida: Until
when?
Ruphus: You’ll
know upon realization.
