Nothing Outside of Presence is Ever Experienced - 8th October 2016

This is clear. Only it comes very strongly like... it's good to know what I am not, but it's... let it experience what I am. Yes, it does come because it's... mind just picks up that and starts visualizing.

So, what I am not is this idea I've had about myself for so long. This person I am not. You see, the snake is not there in the rope; that I am not. And then we are talking about what you are, you see? Then you find that in your phenomenal aspect, in your dynamic aspect, as Guruji says, you have this consciousness which is the light and the screen of all this worldly appearance. Ultimately, even this 'I am' not. I am that which is witness even of this. And then from this perspective, we can say nothing has ever really happened. This is what she was trying to imply earlier, you see? Even the birth of consciousness and the dissolution, from the perspective of awareness, has never really happened. So ultimately, I am not any of this, including consciousness. But what is there to say then after that? Nothing. So it starts... we start with the 'notting' from the outside: I am not this, not this, not this, not this. And then we come to a point where somebody like a sage like Nisargadatta Maharaj can say even 'I am-ness' is an infection. I am not that. You see, even 'I am-ness' itself I am not. Something from someone like that who is so established in his truest Self, in his awareness, not distracted by this worldly phenomena at all—they can come to a point where they say even this 'I am' is an infection for me, you see.