Ramesh Balsekar

 Awareness, when it is in contact with

an object, a physical form, becomes

witnessing. When at the same time

there is self-identification with the

object, such a state becomes

'the person'. In Reality, there is

only one state; when corrupted

and tainted by self-identification,

it may be called a person (Vyakti);

when it is tinted by a sense of

being, the resulting consciousness

becomes 'the witnessing'; when

it remains in its pristine purity,

untainted and untinted, it is

the Supreme, the Absolute.