37.
Out of the nothingness, the ‘I am’ or
beingness
has come, there is no individual,
the
knowledge ‘I am’- not the individual –
has
to go back to its source.
It’s very difficult to formulate any
descriptions or words
for the state prior to the ‘I am’ or
beingness.
Some
words that have been commonly used are:
nothingness,
emptiness, fullness, void, eternity,
totality or even the Absolute or
‘Parabrahman’.
Whatever the word, the ‘I am’ appears to
have arisen
on it and it is sometimes called its
source.
The
individual comes much later in the picture
and as you
go
back it is the pure ‘I am’ or beingness
that remains,
so
it this knowledge ‘I am’ that has to go
back to its source.
There
is no question of a non-existent
individual anywhere.