What is it to observe without the observer? || Acharya Prashant, on J. Krishnamurti (2014)

Question: “Observe the disorder without the observer.” How will it be possible?

Acharya Prashant: A man is driving his car in a drunk state. In an absolutely drunk state and the car is moving about in a very disorderly way. There are two rear seats. Will one seat know that the other seat is moving about in a disorderly way?

Listener 1: No

AP: Why?

Because both seats are so much with each other that we can say that one is as disorderly as the other one. Right? One is constantly following the motion of the other. Both are equally disorderly. And when you are very very disorderly, only the disorderly appears orderly to you.

Look at it from the point of view of one of the seats: there is a tree outside the car and the tree is standing still. From the frame of reference of one of the seats of the car, how will the tree appear? The tree will appear drunk. The tree will appear mad, the tree will appear disorderly. And the other seat will appear very orderly.

Disorder is disorder only when the observer is still.