Acharya Prashant addresses a question regarding the relationship between witnessing and J. Krishnamurti's statement, "The observer is the observed." He begins by explaining that the observer is the mind. Our perception of the world is shaped by our mental configuration. For instance, all human beings perceive a particular color similarly because they share a common human mind. This illustrates that what is observed is not independent of the observer; you look at a thing in a particular way only because you are the way you are. The observer is intricately linked to the observed. This concept is echoed in scriptures that describe the world as a projection of the mind, not an objective reality existing outside of oneself. The world is like a dream that changes with one's state of consciousness, be it waking or sleeping. No object possesses a reality independent of the subject. In our daily lives, this manifests as an inability to observe anything truly because of pre-existing beliefs, attachments, and fears. These create a distance between the observer and the observed, which is the root of human misery. We are not free to observe because we are not free from our attachments and fears. Acharya Prashant clarifies that total observation, or witnessing, is not about maintaining a distance or being aloof. Instead, it is about coming close to the observed entity with complete freedom. This freedom from attachment and fear allows the observer and the observed to dissolve into one another. This dissolved state is witnessing, which is also love and intimacy. As long as the observer and the observed remain two separate entities, they are both false. The separation between them is the source of suffering. He further explains that witnessing is not about constantly monitoring oneself like a watchman, which would be a form of self-imposed military rule. It is about being fearless and having faith in oneself to be unregulated. Honesty in observation is the method to dissolve the duality of the observer and the observed. When you are honest, you see that your nature is purity, and any impurity, like fear, will cause a disturbance. By not promoting these disturbances and simply watching them, one practices witnessing. This honest observation is itself witnessing, which is the non-existence of suffering.