48.
Sitting quietly, being one with
the knowledge ‘I am’,
you
will lose all concern with the
world, then the ‘I am’
will
also go, leaving you as the
Absolute.
You
have gone so far away from the
primary ‘I am’ that you find
it almost
impossible
to disentangle yourself from
the conceptual jungle that you
are
trapped in.
Most of us are so deeply
enmeshed in this world that
there is no time
to even think of all this.
Only those who are sensitive
and observant or have faced a
crisis in life
realize the futility of it
all.
Thus
begins the quest of your true
identity and the meaning of
life.
The Guru’s advice is very
simple: first, you have to
understand the
‘I am’ as the primary concept
and root of all the trouble.
Then
you have to sit quietly and
become one with knowledge ‘I
am’.
As you do so you will lose all
concern with the world.
Then, quite spontaneously, if
you have been earnest in your
abidance,
the
‘I am’ would drop off leaving
you free as the Absolute.