94.
Who says ‘I was not’ and ‘I will not be’ like the present ‘I am’?
It
is the one who was, is, and will be forever.
When you ponder on the question ‘What was I before I was
born?’, you realize that ‘I was not’, or
that ‘I was not as I am at present’.
Then,
as you believe ‘you are’ at present, you also realize, seeing
people dying everyday
that ‘I would not be as I am at present’.
So
there are three things: ‘I was not’, ‘I am’, and ‘I will not
be’.
Who
knows this?
It
is the unchangeable Absolute, the Parabrahman, or the true Self
who was, is, and will be forever.