Swami Abhishiktananda - I AM

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Swami Abhishiktananda (Father Henri Le Saux):

 

Who can bear the glory of transfiguration, of man's dying as transfigured; because what Christ is, I AM! One can only speak of it after being awaken from the dead....It was a remarkable spiritual experience...While I was sitting on my sidewalk, on the frontier of the two worlds, I was magnificently calm, for I AM no matter what in the world! I have found the GRAIL!...

 

The more I go on, the less able I would be to present Christ in a way which could be still considered as Christian....For Christ is first an idea which comes to me from outside. Even more after my 'beyond life/death experience' of 14.7.1973 I can only aim at awakening people to what 'they are'. Anything about God or the Word in any religion, which is not based on the deep "I" experience, is bound to be simply 'notion', not existential.

 

Yet I am interested in no Christology at all. I have so little interest in a Word of God which will awaken man within history.... The Word of God comes from/to my own 'present'; it is that very awakening which is my self awareness. What I discover above all in Christ is his 'I AM'... It is this I AM experience which really matters. Christ is the very mystery that 'I AM', and in the experience and existential knowledge all Christology has disintegrated...

 

What would be the meaning of a 'Christianity-coloured' awakening? in the process of awakening all this colouration cannot but disappear... the colouration might vary according to the audience, but the essential goes beyond. The discovery of Christ's I AM is the ruin of any Christian theology, for all notions are burned within the fire of experience... I feel too much, more and more, the blazing fire of this I AM in which all notions about Christ's personality, ontology, history etc have disappeared.

 

 

~ NOTHING EVER HAPPENED

DAVID GODMAN

vol. 2, pp. 88-89

 

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