I Am I Amness — Understanding Our True Self — Part 4
The I Am is All — We Cannot Find What Always Is — I Amness Is Eternity — I Amness Is the End of Fear
The I Am is All
I am consciousness; I am awareness; I am existence; that is I Am I Amness.
We should not get confused, the I have nothing to do with our identity or who we believe we are. The I refer to the unity of everything that is, was, and will be beyond time and space. The Am refers to “Isness”, to the content of the I. Please bear in mind that the explanation is limited to the medium of words, so it might seem that the I and the Am are different, but they are not. That is why, in the Advaita tradition and in nonduality, we say “not two”.
We Cannot Find What Always Is
Searching for I Amness is futile. It would be like a drop of water will look for water. We have forgotten what all nature knows, so we search for it.
Life has the wish to be conscious of itself. That’s why we exist.
The I Amness has been always present and is the present itself. In the realization that there is nothing we can find and no one who can find it, I Amness takes over, and Life’s wish to know itself is fulfilled.
I Amness Is Eternity
Eternity is not all time forever, that never stops. Eternity is I Amness. I Amness is the present moment, beyond time.
The personal self dies. Who and what we are cannot die. Eternity cannot die. What dies cannot be eternal.
I Amness Is the End of Fear
When we experience I Am I Amness, fear is not possible. Only the personal self fears. The realized humans live in peace and serenity.
The realisation of I Am I Amness is neither an intellectual achievement nor an abstract concept, and certainly not a philosophy. It is the vibrant experience of who/what we really are.
Fear cannot live in this realization, just as a fish cannot live on land. To live free from fear is what the heart desires most. In the natural absence of fear, love will shine without the limitation of the personal self.
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