Questioner: Sir, so one when day I was taking a bath, I was applying soap so there was a moment when I realized - the one who is applying the soap, and to whom it is getting applied to, both are somewhere different but both are one. But there is a thing that if there was another moment I was taking a shower and I felt that - why I am not getting wet?
Something is getting wet but why I am not getting wet? This happens If I identify myself that I am Ranveer, and I am standing in the bathroom and I’ve seen everything around. Then I am the person who is getting the soap or getting the bath. But when I see that, I am, I just look at the moment like this, then I am the person who is doing all the activity but not to whom I am getting, not the person who is getting wet. So how to manage this, because this is a very confusing situation for me. That who is doing the activity, and to whom the activity is done?
Acharya Prashant: There is a thing to be managed, what you are talking of is a thought. If you want to keep thinking like this, you can keep repeating this thought. To witness the bath is to take the bath fully and totally clean. In the bathroom, if you are thinking like this, then you will come out with shampoo in your head.
Witnessing does not mean that one thinks that he is witnessing. Witnessing means that, while taking a bath, just take the bath, and don’t think of this and that, that is witnessing. Otherwise, you can keep repeating this thought. If that is your definition of witnessing that I am not getting wet, but conceptually what you are saying is not misplaced. Yes, of course, and that is also the way conventionally it has been put that the witness is that one - who cannot be wetted by water.
