' I AM '...

Q: Everybody says 'I am'.. The realized man too says 'I am'. Where is the difference?

M: The difference is in the meaning attached to the words 'I am'..

With the realized man the experience: 'I am the world, the world is mine' is supremely valid - he thinks, feels and acts integrally and in unity with all that lives.

He may not even know the theory and practice of self-realization, and be born and bred free of religious and metaphysical notions.

But there will not be the least flaw in his understanding and compassion.



- Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT ch 22