Knowing or being aware is non-objective, transparent or colourless. It is empty of all apparent objects but full of itself alone. It is, as such, an utterly unique experience. It cannot be known as an object and yet it is not unknown. It is the most obvious element of experience and yet the most overlooked. Thus it is referred to in the Kashmir Shaivite tradition as ‘the greatest secret, more hidden than the most concealed and yet more evident than the most evident of things’.
