#dristhi

dristhi,azurion and selenia in @monstersbesinging’s art style

Not gonna lie this art style looks adorable in my opinion

Sat-Darshana Bhashya, verse 6 (pg.58)  

Infinite Self — The One limitless Eye

If the seer is an embodied being, the world and the Lord that are the seen, have also an embodied existence; and embodiment is not necessarily physical, nor is it used to denote only what is visible to the eye. It is any or all of the five sheaths (*). Thus having stated that God, world and soul have form presented to the seeing soul that is embodied, the verse proceeds to state that they are formless in the formless Infinite Self.

The question is asked, ' Who is there to see in the formless Self ? ' If the seeing self is formless who is there to see ? The infinite Self is itself the Eye, one limitless and full. Here one is reminded of the Upanishad that refers to Brahman as that in which the Self has become all beings (existences).

The Self is the all ; it is that which has become all this ; and there is nothing for the self to see outside of itself or apart from it, as it includes (lit., devours), all forms and transcends them (lit. shines forth). Here, there is no knowledge of distinction between seer and seen ; hence the Upanishad describes the character of the One, the Infinite, Adwaitha, Akhanda by putting the question ' whom to see and by what ? ' Here also the same question is put, 'Who is there to see ? ' The answer is obvious, there is none. ' Why ? ' ' Itself is the Eye '. The Supreme Brahman is denoted by the third person ' Itself '. It is mentioned as the Eye to denote that it is Consciousness. It is ' One ' \ without a second, Infinite. It is ' limitless ' or endless, ' the full ', the all-pervasive. If it is mentioned as ' seer ', then the question may arise that there is ' the seen ' apart from the seer. To avoid it, the word ' Eye ' drishti is used in the sense of sight or awareness (consciousness) and not in the sense that there is a seer apart from the sight.

When like incessant waves of the shoreless ocean, myriads of worlds are born of the Supreme Brahman and endure and are dissolved, the eternal Infinite Self, called here ' the Eye,' remains full and perfect and is not lost in the incessant change taking place in it, in its self-becomings, in the creative movement of its consciousness that brings into existence and supports the distinctions of God and world, individual and universal, seer and seen, supporter and supported. In the first half of the verse it was stated that the -form of God and the world depends upon the seeing soul Jeeva that has form ; in the latter half we find it stated in unmistakable terms that if the seeing self is realised to be formless then the truth can be understood that there is nothing that is really other than the Self which is Infinite, Eternal, the limitless Eye, the Full and Perfect. Thus though the formlessness of the Self is clearly stated to be the Supreme truth, yet the seeing self that has form sees the Creator and His creation, in form. 

As I Saw Him - by Kunju Swami

There are numerous photos of Bhagavan. Have you ever seen one with his eyes closed? Bhagavan was pouring out his grace through his eyes. There would be any number of devotees sitting before him and each one would feel that Bhagavan was looking only at him or her. Bhagavan’s dristhi  (sight) was concentrated on space only. It was turned inward and everyone felt inwardly, in their hearts, that his sight was focused on them alone. Bhagavan cares  about everyone, and his look pierces through each one’s heart, dispels our darkness, gives us peace, even some liberation.

Source: - Maharshi Newsletter: Jul / Aug 1991, Vol.1 No.4

btw here’s dristhi’s character brief

I usually depends on making more character briefs somehow I only use them when I’m not alone but this art fixes me so without further ado,,I’ll be remaking destiny awakens on Sunday.

Wait a minute I was going to give you a special thanks to aimike for a commission I got,,,it was fun!!!

https://t.co/gaoDN9iLRy

Translate: Heyo this ship didn't get sunked but my braincells were happy to find about dristhi and Cynthia being a thing

Inspo