A personal essay tracing the path from artistic expression to spiritual insight. What began as a need to create evolved into a deeper desire to understand reality. Through meditation and the teachings of Advaita Vedanta, the search turned inward—toward the Self, the silent witness behind all thought and feeling.

Duality and non-duality are not opposing truths but complementary aspects of the same spiritual journey.

Consciousness, according to Vedanta, is not an object to be discovered in the brain or a fleeting mental state—it is the ever-present, unchanging witness behind all experience.

This essay examines the question of whether objects exist independently of observation, contrasting interpretations of quantum physics with Vedantic thought.