all knowledge is about the 'I Am'

[Guest guest]

Questioner: How can I see the world as God? What does it mean to see the world

as God?

 

Maharaj: It is like entering a dark room. You see nothing -- you may touch, but

you do not see -- no colours, no outlines. The window opens and the room is

flooded with light. Colours and shapes come into being. The window is the giver

of light, but not the source of it. The sun is the source. Similarly, matter is

like the dark room; consciousness -- the window -- flooding matter with

sensations and perceptions, and the Supreme is the sun the source both of matter

and of light. The window may be closed, or open, the sun shines all the time. It

makes all the difference to the room, but none to the sun. Yet all this is

secondary to the tiny little thing which is the 'I am'. Without the 'I am' there

is nothing. All knowledge is about the 'I am'. False ideas about this 'I am'

lead to bondage, right knowledge leads to freedom and happiness.

 

I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj