WHAT IS MEANT BY ‘I AM I-ING’? ...

The ignorant man sees only changes in this world, and is ignorant of the changeless
background behind all changes.

So the Acarya first tries to show the changeless ‘I’ as distinct and separate from the
changing body, senses and mind.

Then the disciple is asked to take his stand in that ‘I’-principle, and to look from
there at the changing world. Immediately, the changes appear an illusion; and he
understands that the changes are nothing but expressions of the changeless ‘I’. And
that is the changeless itself.

So, when I say the world is shining, it is nothing but myself expressing or shining.
Or in other words, ‘I am I-ing.’ Because shining is not a function, but my real nature..............Shri Atmananda