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Who am I ?...

“Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality.

“To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not.

“Discover all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.

“The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, introduction to “I Am That”

2 comments:

Sophia said...

This particular sentence really stands out for me: "The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive."

Am I what is doing the perceiving? Am I the one that is perceiving myself ask "Am I what is doing the perceiving"?

It seems almost recursive.

thomas ... said...

The "I" that is doing the perceiving is Universal Consciousness.. But, since most of us are Not-Enlightened, we believe that the "I" that is perceiving is the false ego.. If we can look at and examine the ego, then, we must be higher than the ego.. This Higher Self is our True Divinity and is part of the Energy that we call God.........namaste, thomas