Acharya Prashant explains that common notions of witnessing or awareness are often misunderstood as a form of dualistic watching, where one plays the role of a policeman or a spy over their own ego. He argues that this type of watching is inherently flawed because the watcher is the ego itself, and the eye cannot look at itself directly. True witnessing, he clarifies, is not an action or a purposeful supervision; it is a state of total disinterest and detachment. In this state, the witness does absolutely nothing and has no motive to judge or interfere with the ego. Real witnessing is so subtle that the individual is not even conscious of the act of witnessing, as any awareness of it would imply a dualistic separation.