Ulladu-Narpadu Verse 36: ‘I am That’
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 15/06/2017

This series is classified Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga | Turīya | Sahasrāra-cakra

"If in delusion we think that we are the body, then thinking, ‘No we are not this body, we are That: the Reality’, will be a good aid for reminding and encouraging us to abide as That. However since in truth we ever abide as That, why think always, ‘I am That’? Does one always think, ‘I am a man’? That is, to be a man, does a man always need to meditate, ‘I am a man, I am a man’?" 

Note: Refer to the note to verse 29 of this work, where it is explained how meditating, “I am not this body, I am That”, may in the beginning be an indirect aid for reminding and encouraging us to know and abide as That. However, so long as we meditate, “I am not this body, I am That”, is it not clear that we still feel ourself to be the body and that we do not actually experience ourself to be That (the reality or Brahman)? Just as there is no need for a man to meditate, “I am a man”, so there would be no need for us to meditate, “I am That”, if we were actually experiencing the truth that we are always That.

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