Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon

They appear and disappear but the background always remains.

That which does not disappear at any moment of life is the true reality.

Anything that comes and goes is not the true reality.

As a witness you cannot suffer.

But when you explore your feelings, you'll see that these feelings rise in you.

The you that was there before the feeling appeared.

That is what you really are.

Just before that feeling appeared, I was in my real nature, having no thoughts, no emotions, no feeling, no body, no mind and so on.

Between two thoughts,

I am in my real nature between two feelings I am in my real nature

Between two mental activities, I am in my real nature.

So everything arises in me, abides in me, and vanishes into me.

So the material with which these thoughts are created can only be myself.

These feelings are created with me.

So it is I that is present here as suffering.

Not in suffering, but as suffering.

As happiness, as pain,

And if this is the case, then there is no one else to suffer it.

As a witness, you see these things

You do not suffer.