In plain words
He is present as the unseen too. What does ‘unseen’ mean? Un-seen. What does not come within the range of the seen is the unseen. This whole world is only the seen! This ‘I’ experiences through the senses. It enjoys. The eyes are not seeing. That divine ‘I’ is seeing through the eyes. A small example. After you die, the eyes are still there. If the eyes themselves were the seer and saw, why are they not able to see on their own? That ‘I’ which sees is gone from there. So the eyes are there, but the seer who sees is not in them. In everything, we experience the seen only through the seer. This very seer is the ‘I’ that is Divinity.
‘I’ is present at all times, in all beings
Where was this ‘I’ born from? How did it come into being? Foolish fellow! This ‘I’ is not something that comes into being, not something that is born. It is present everywhere, at all times, in all beings. So: ‘Always, at all times, everywhere, I alone.’ That itself is the seer. This seer is not something that is born, not something that passes away. This ‘I’ has no coming and going. The seen has coming and going. In the seen itself Aham is present. We must recognise the difference between this Ahaṅkāra and Aham. Ahaṅkāra is clouds that come and go. Aham is the eternal principle that has no coming and going. Today we take this seen to be the seer. We think that all we see is true. Many people say, ‘We believe only pratyakṣa pramāṇa.’ What foolishness! There is a man. His height is six feet. His weight, eighty kilos. You take note of his height and weight. His colour is wheatish. He is bald. All these that you tell are things that can be seen. Merely by telling these, you cannot become one who knows what he truly is. You tell his height and weight, but do you see what the qualities within him are like? These are not things that can be seen. There is no need to go that far. You say, ‘My mind.’ Do you see your mind? No! Then how do you say it? Are you visible to yourself? No! How do you say it? How do you believe in what cannot be seen?