I
AM THAT
Dialogues
of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
That
in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings, who is the
giver
of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being
--
I am that.
Amritbindu
Upanishad
That
which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the
universal
space around us, fills everything completely from within and
without,
that Supreme non-dual Brahman -- that thou art.
Sankaracharya
The
seeker is he who is in search of himself.
Give
up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you
are
sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not.
Struggle
to find out what you are in reality.
To
know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are
not.
Discover
all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or
that
-- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The
very
act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.
The
clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in
negative
terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search
and realise that you are the limitless being.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj