Bhagavan: Your process is only intellectual

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Q: I begin to ask myself 'Who am I?' and eliminate the body as not 'I'

the prana as not 'I' the mind as not 'I' and I am not able to proceed

further.

 

M: Well, that is as far as the intellect goes. Your process is only

intellectual. Indeed all the scriptures mention the process only to

guide the seeker to know the truth. The truth cannot be directly

pointed out, hence this intellectual process. you see, the one who

eliminates all the 'not-'I' cannot eliminate the 'I'. To say 'I am

not this,' or 'I am that.' there must be the 'I'. This 'I' is only

the ego or the 'I'-thought. Once the 'I'-thought has arisen, all

other thoughts follow. The 'I'-thought is therefore the root

-thought. If the root is eliminated all others are uprooted. Ask

yourself 'Who am I?' Find its source. Then all these will vanish and

the pure Self will remain. The 'I' is always there - there is always

the feeling of 'I' otherwise could you deny your existence?

 

The reality of yourself cannot be questioned. The Self is the primal

reality. The ordinary person unconsciously takes reality to be their

true inner reality plus everything which has come into their

consciousness as pertaining to themselves - body,etc.. This they have

to unlearn.