Technique 104 of 112 — The Unchanging Core Of Awareness

This dharana utilizes the 'Neti-Neti' (not this, not this) approach found in the Upanishads but applies it within the Tantric framework of self-recognition. It targets the three primary components of the internal organ (antahkarana): the discursive mind (chitta), the discerning intellect (buddhi), and the ego-sense (ahankara). In the metaphysics of the Vijnana Bhairava, these are all limited modifications of the infinite consciousness. They are tools, not the self. By systematically negating these attributes, the practitioner peels away the layers of false identity. This is not a state of emptiness in the sense of 'nothingness,' but rather the removal of the clutter that obscures the self-luminous I-consciousness (Aham). When you convince yourself that you are not the one who thinks, the one who decides, or the one who identifies, you fall back into the primordial 'I' that simply IS. This practice brings the 'manasah shantim' (peace of mind) by eliminating the very structures that cause mental agitation. It is the path of radical subtraction to find the indivisible remainder.