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Post by skyblue on Sept 10, 2010 17:22:25 GMT -5
Somebody put this into words I can understand.
From Nisargadatta
Worship the indwelling ‘I am’ in you, it is the ‘I am’ that is born, it is the ‘I am’ that will die, you are not that ‘I am’. This indwelling principle ‘I am’ that has appeared on your True being is the one that is born and it is the one that will die. You are not the ‘I am’, but in order to understand this and transcend the ‘I am’ you have to worship it, stay with it constantly, only then will it be pleased with you and release you from its clutches.
I thought the 'I am' was the absolute?
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Post by robert on Sept 10, 2010 22:19:26 GMT -5
sky- i read in one of nisargadatta's last writings that the I AM is the spoken aspect, and I AM NOT the unspoken. i didn't understand it until very recently. i like what you posted as well. robert
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Post by enigma on Sept 11, 2010 11:28:17 GMT -5
The way Niz talks about it can be confusing. From my perspective, the I AM is the sense of existence that becomes identified with the mind/body. It is not the mind/body, just that inward, intuitive sense.
We may tend to think this sense is ego or mind and so see it as a bad deal, but this sense is what makes all of creation possible, and is, in one context, what you are. (Not the assumption of mind/body, but just the sense 'I AM'). Some have called this 'the Godly principle', and though i never really studied Niz, if I'm not mistaken, he refers to God as creation.
The funny thing is, this sense of existence (I AM) is also being observed. 'Something' knows of this sense 'I AM' and you are That. I think Niz is asking you to follow that "indwelling principle" to realize that within which it arises. ("True Being")
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Post by skyblue on Sept 11, 2010 15:47:33 GMT -5
Robert & Enigma: Thanks for the help!
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