Satsang with Nome - You Are

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Nome: You are not the body. You are not the mind. You are not the

ego. Of all that appears to arise or manifest, you are the source. Of

the unmanifested, you are the Existence. Of all that is known, you

are the Consciousness, which is Knowledge, itself. Of all joys, you

are the Bliss. In all perceiving, you are the knowing, which is

Consciousness, Knowledge itself. Of all experiencing, you are That

which is most immediate. Among all things, you are That which is all-

pervading yet utterly transcendent.

 

You are That which is timeless and location-less. You are That which

is never born and which never perishes, for you are not the body, you

are not the mind, and you are not the illusory ego.

 

You cannot be perceived, and you can never be conceived; yet there is

never anything of such that is other than you. You are, simply, the

indivisible Reality. In the abandonment of the misidentification with

the body or the mind, and in the abandonment of the false assumption

of being a separate, individual entity, or ego, all of this is self-

evident.

 

Of all that is said and thought, of all that is taught and learned,

you are the Silence.

 

(silence)

 

Inquiring within as the Maharshi instructs, " Who am I?, " you know

yourself. When you know yourself, the essence revealed even by the

Vedas, is you, yourself. Knowing yourself in your real Existence,

your real identity, you find that there is no alternative identity

and no other existence. The Self is the Nondual. So, knowing yourself

is knowing Reality. Reality knows itself. Not knowing yourself is the

unreal imagining the unreal. If the unreal imagines the unreal, it

does not amount to much.

 

Knowledge of the sole-existent Self is Liberation from the imagined

bondage. Ignorance, which has no support and no actual substance, is

the only apparent bondage. Therefore, the way to eliminate the

imagined, or apparent, bondage is simply Knowledge of yourself, for

you are not the body, not the mind, and, most certainly, not the ego.

 

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Not two,

Richard