sakshin
साक्षिन् sakshinThe witness: the atman as the unchanging observer of all experience, distinct from body and mind, untouched by what maya presents to it.
Where this term appears
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
The technical term for that witnessing self is sakshin , the witness, the one who sees but is not entangled in what is seen.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
… the great gods see; the very hymn Rama was taught names the sun loka-sakshin , the witness of all the worlds; and the tradition made the sun the witness of every deed done beneath it, the sakshi from whom noth…
- Is your soul the same as the ātman? Journal
It is the pure awareness in which your personality appears, the silent witness, the sakshin , that which makes all experience possible without being any object within experience.