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For the living being He is the "light with the heart" - (Bṛ Up 4.3.7), that only "assumes the likeness" of the intellect and "thinks, as it were" and "shakes, as it were" - (ibid). As the underlying substratum and foundation of unchanging awareness which illuminates all the acts of the mind, for the living being when the self-revealing light of His awareness lends its light to the mind, He is "never seen but is the Witness; It is never heard, but is the Hearer; It is never thought, but is the Thinker; It is never known, but is the Knower" - (Bṛ Up 3.8.11), or more accurately, because He is separate from those particular acts of witnessing, hearing and thinking as the unchanging eternal reality of pure Awareness that is not subject to change, He is the "witness of vision ... the hearer of hearing .. the thinking of thought ... the knower of knowledge" - (Bṛ Up 3.4.2), the "Brahman that is immediate and direct—the self that is within all.; everything else but this is perishable." - (ibid).

The whole time He remains immutable all-pervasive ever-liberated Bliss-Awareness, and is eternally free from ignorance, decay, heat, cold, hunger, thirst, pain, sin, death and birth, unaffected by the mind which He illuminates, just "as the sun, which helps all eyes to see, is not affected by the blemishes of the eyes or of the external things revealed by it, so also the one Self, dwelling in all beings, is never contaminated by the misery of the world, being outside it." - (Ka Up 2.2.11.)

This indwelling Self is not really an entity which performs the act of hearing, seeing, thinking, caring etc, because these are merely the mental acts separate from Him, the Immortal unchanging Entity, who when He lends His light to them, is viewed by living being as associated with these separate particular aspects and "People do not see It, for (viewed in Its aspects) It is incomplete When It does the function of living, It is called the vital force; when It speaks, the organ of speech; when It sees, the eye; when It hears, the ear; and when It thinks, the mind. These are merely Its names according to functions. He who meditates upon each of this totality of aspects does not know, for It is incomplete, (being divided) from this totality by possessing a single characteristic. The Self alone is to be meditated upon, for all these are unified in It." - (Bṛ Up 1.4.7). That same Self, the "Supreme Ruler, the inmost Self of all beings" - (Ka Up 2.2.12), that is "the eternal Reality among non−eternal objects" - (Ka Up 2.2.13), of Him, the Self, "Eternal happiness belongs to the wise, who perceive Him within themselves−not to others." - (Ka 2.2.12.).