All you need to do is to try and try again

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Go deep into the sense of `I am' and you will find. How do you

find a thing you have mislaid or forgotten? You keep it in your

mind until you recall it. The sense of being, of `I am' is the first to

emerge. Ask yourself whence it comes or just watch it quietly.

When the mind stays in the `I am', without moving, you enter a

state, which cannot be verbalized, but which can be experienced.

All you need to do is to try and try again. After all the sense of `I

am' is always with you, only you have attached all kinds of things

to it- body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, possessions and so on. All

these self-identifications are misleading, because of these you take

yourself to be what you are not.

 

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" I Am That "

Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Acorn Press, 1973