Extract from: The Essential Nisargadatta, By Roy Melvyn
On my true, whole, homogenous state, just a small ripple appeared, the news came, “I AM”.
That news made all the difference, and I started knowing this; but now I have known my true state, so I understand my true state first, and then I understand that this ripple is coming and going on my true state. While in your case, you take interest in the ripple and don’t take interest in your true state.
On the state of “non-beingness”, the beingness appeared together with manifestation, creating a feeling as if “I AM”; who that is, is not important, only “I AM” is immportant. The initial humming of the being as “I AM, I AM” is the duality. But who accepts the duality? The “non-beingness” accepts duality with the beingness. The Absolute “non-eing state, by assuming the being state, becomes dual in manifestation.
Pose the question from the standpoint that you are only the knowledge “I AM”. The primary ignorance is about our “I AM-NESS”, we have taken it as the Ultimate, which is ignorance. We presume that this consciousness is the eternal, the Ultimate, which is the mistake. This “I AM” principle is there provided the waking state and deep sleep are there. I am not the waking state, I am not the deep sleep – therefore I, the Absolute, am not that “I AM”. Leave aside this triad what are you? Understand clearly, when you keep aside the very instrument of questioning, where is the question?
Presently, the feeling that you are is also memory. To sustain that memory of “I AM”, all these raw materials are necessary. you are not that “I AM”. You are as the Absolute, prior to this I AM”.
