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come, the auspicious moment has come!' He allowed it to happen.
Hours passed, all was gone, and then he started laughing because all was gone and he was still there! Then he opened his eyes, he looked at his body. The body was there but he was no more the body. For half a century he was alive, but never again did he become identified with the body. He knew that thoughts had disappeared but he was still there!
This 'I am' is your reality.
When Moses encountered god and when god sent him back to his people with a message, the ten commandments, he asked god, 'But they will ask me who has given these ten commandments to me. What is your name, sir? They won't believe me. They will ask, "What is the name of this god?"'
And god said, 'Tell them, I am that which I am; this is my name. I am that which I am.'
That is the most significant sentence in the whole bible, the very gist of all religion: 'I am not the body, I am not the mind. I am that which I am.'
It cannot be identified with anything else. You cannot say who you are because whatsoever you say will be wrong because you will have to bring in something else. If you say 'I am a woman', you will be wrong, because how can you be a woman? the womanhood is part of your physical body, your bio-chemistry, but not your consciousness. The consciousness has not ever known anything of the woman or of the man.
If you say 'I am a young person', again you are wrong because old age and youth belong to the body. The chronological age has nothing to do with consciousness -- consciousness is ageless, timeless.
If you say 'I am beautiful, I am ugly', again you are talking about the form -- and the consciousness has no form at all. It is beyond all forms; it is simply empty of all forms. That is known in the East as the shunya experience, the experience of the void.
Allow it. It is a great blessing. Next time it comes make yourself comfortable, remember what I have told you about ramana, lie down, wait, accept, go into it... dissolve! And don't be in a hurry t come back; let everything go! don't cling and don't clutch to anything! Let there be a total declutching: let everything
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