Quickie

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.