What is "sakshi"

For the Telugu newspaper of the same name, see Saakshi (newspaper)

Saakshi was a 1967 Telugu film. It was the first film made by the writer-director duo of Mullapudi Venkata Ramana and Bapu. The film won critical acclaim at the 'Tashkent film festival' in 1968.

The movie introduced Krishna in a leading role, who would go on to become a major player in Telugu. Vijaya Nirmala was cast beside him who would later marry Krishna. The movie was both a critical and financial success.

Also introduced in the movie was Saakshi Ranga Rao, whose name was preceded by the movie's in every other movie he acted subsequently. The movie tells the story of a naive and bucolic young man who is exploited by the society and turns into a hardhearted person. The movie was marked by great performances from Krishna, Vijaya Nirmala and 'Saakshi' Ranga Rao and would stand as a milestone in their long careers.

Sakshi ( Telugu: sakshi) is a Telugu media group. The group has a news daily and a Telugu News channel. It is headquartered in Hyderabad, India.

Sakshi or Saakshi, the word for "witness" in Nepali, Telugu, and Hindi, may refer to:

• Sakshi (Witness), a concept in Hindu philosophy
• Sakshi (film), a 1967 Telugu film
• Saaksshi, 2004 Indian television series
• Sakshi (newspaper), a Telugu daily based in Hyderabad, India
• Sakshi TV, a Telugu news channel
• Sakshi (media group), holding company of Sakshi newspaper and Sakshi TV
• Sakshigopal temple, a temple dedicated to Lord Gopal located in Sakshigopal, Orissa

Sakshi is Telugu language daily newspaper in India and world. Sakshi is published in 23 editions by Jagati Publication. It is owned by Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy (son of the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy) and run by Ramachandra Murthy

Sakshi ( English: Witness) is a 1989 Telugu, Suspense Thriller film, produced by Vijay, Y. T. Naidu on Sri Gayathri Kala Chitra banner and directed by P. N. Ramachandra Rao. Starring Rajendra Prasad, Chandra Mohan, Lissy in the lead roles and music composed by Raj-Koti. The film is remake of Malayalam Movie Witness (1988).

Sakshi or Sākśī ( Sanskrit: साक्षी) means – 'observer', 'eyewitness' or the 'Supreme Being' or the 'ego'. In Hindu philosophy, the word, Sākshī or 'witness' refers to the 'Pure Awareness' that witnesses the world but does not get affected or involved. Sakshi is beyond time, space and the triad of experiencer, experiencing and experienced; sakshi witnesses all thoughts, words and deeds without interfering with them or being affected by them, other than sakshi there is nothing else in the entire universe.

With regard to the word, साक्षी (sākśī), used in the following verse from Shvetashvatara Upanishad,

एको देवः सर्वभूतेषु गूढः सर्वव्यापी सर्वभूतान्तरात्मा | कर्माध्यक्षः सर्वभूताधिवासः साक्षी चेता केवलो निर्गुणश्च || "The same Deity remains hidden in all beings, and is all-pervasive and the indwelling Self of all beings. He is the supervisor of actions, lives in all beings, (He is) the Witness, the bestower of intelligence, the Absolute and devoid of the (three) gunas." ( Shvetashvatara Upanishad Sl. VI.11)

Panini states that the same indicates a direct seer or eyewitness (Panini Sutras V.ii.91), Sakshi means Ishvara, the चेता (cetā), the sole Self-consciousness, who is the witness of all, who gives consciousness to every human being, thereby making each rational and discriminatory.

Vedanta speaks of mind (chitta) or antahkarana ('internal instrument'), and matter as the subtle and gross forms of one and the same reality; being the subtle aspect of matter, mind is not a tangible reality. The field of mind (Chittakasha) involves the duality of the seer and the seen, the observer (drg) and the observed (drshya), which duality is overcome in the field of pure Consciousness. Drg-drshya-Viveka tells us:-

"When form is the object of observation or drshyam, then the eye is the observer or drk; when the eye is the object of observation, then the mind is the observer; when the pulsations of the mind are the objects of observation, then Sakshi or the Witnessing-Self is the real observer; and it is always the observer, and, being self-luminous, can never be the object of observation. When the notion and the attachment that one is the physical body is dissolved, and the Supreme Self is realized, wherever one goes, there one experiences Samadhi. "

Sakshi, the Atman, the unchangeable eternal Reality, is the Pure Consciousness and knowledge, in which regard Sankara explains that knowledge does not destroy or create, it only illumines, that the senses (indriyas) are not the mind, the mind uses them as an implement.

The Varaha Upanishad (IV) refers to the Bhumika ('stage of development of wisdom') which is of the form of pranava (Aum or Om) as formed of or divided into – akāra, ukāra, makāra and ardhmātra, which is on account of the difference of sthula ('gross'), sukshama ('subtle'), bija ('seed' or 'causal') and sakshi ('witness') whose avasthas ('states') are – 'waking', 'dreaming', 'dream-less sleep' and 'turiya'. Sakshi which is ' turiya' is the essence.

The faculty which perceives the individual personality is Sakshi or 'Witness' or the higher 'Ego'. Mind (manas), Ego (ahankara) and Sakshi, all perform different functions but that difference of functions does not mean difference in nature or essence. Indian Philosophy discovered the concept of Sakshi, the ultimate Observer, or Witness behind the sense of individuality, or the ego; the Sakshi is the timeless Being which witnesses all this ceaseless flow and change in the world of thought and things.