Passage 23

In English

What you see with your own vision cannot represent the ultimate truth. Your vision is looking at the entire creation. When the whole creation constitutes what you see, then you change yourself into the one who sees. When the eye itself becomes what is seen, then your intelligence becomes that which sees. There is an example for this. You are all sitting in this congregation. Your ears are here. Your eyes are here. If at this instant of time, your mind is thinking about something in your village, then even while you are here and while your ears are here, you will not be able to listen to what is speaking. Even though you have your eyes here, you will not be able to see what is in front of you. Thus, while the mind is elsewhere, even if the sensory organs are here, they cannot function as one who sees or one who hears. But sometimes even the mind is seen and the intelligence becomes the seer. In some cases and instances, even the intelligence becomes the seer and the becomes the seer. Thus what witnesses everything is the and nothing is superior to this. Intelligence is useful to you as seer only with regard to worldly matters, and intelligence is indeed very superior to the sensory organs.