WHAT THE ATMAN SEES

What happens when the Atman no longer identifies with the egoic self?  It notices as never before what the egoic self is doing.

It watches, to begin with, the multitude of irrelevant things the egoic self is involved with, irrelevant in that the things have everything to do with the relative world and nothing to do with the spiritual world, with liberation.

It observes the egoic self’s attraction to other egoic selves.  It is aware of the attraction and of its effect.  Since, however, the Atman no longer identifies with the egoic self, it experiences the attraction once removed.

The act of thinking the Atman no longer experiences directly as well.  It sees that thinking occurs only in the mind, and it, the Atman, is not the mind.  The Atman cannot be the mind because the mind is transient, whereas the Atman is eternal.

As background consciousness, the Atman is not aware of itself.  It merely observes what is happening before it.  Above all, it does not judge.