67.
Who can know the illusory
state ‘I am’? Only a
non-illusory state
can
do so, it’s the Awareness,
the Parabrahman, or the
Absolute.
There
has to be an
unchangeable background
that observes all the
changes.
‘Knowing’
and ‘not- knowing’,
‘being’ and ‘not-being’,
‘I am’ and ‘I am not’,
these
are all states of
consciousness that occur
on an unchangeable
substratum.
Only
a non-illusory state is
capable of knowing the
illusory state.
This
real or non-illusory
state has been called
Awareness, the Absolute
or the
Parabrahman.
In
its original state it is
devoid of any content or
experience, these occur
only after
the
appearance of ‘I am’.