The Point of Illumination – ‘I am I’

In spirituality most of us know that ‘I’ is present in all beings and at all times. It is said that this I cam first, it is present, to realise it one should refuse all thoughts except ‘I am’ and stay there. It is has no origin, it exists in all beings at all times.

The inquiry of ‘I’ is found in seekers of Bhakti Yoga and Jnana yoga both. Bhagwan say it as embodiment of the Atma. Shruti described Atma as Hridaya. Hridaya means embodiment of compassion. Upon deeper inquiry man can understand that he is not even breadth that appears so close to his perceptive I.

Instead of Atma, mind runs behind external objects. Since objects are taken to be pleasure giving but they are not really so. When the Atma is experienced, the mind will cease to exist. It is like the light of moon fading in the presence of the sunlight.

Swami says that ‘man should seek and acquire the bliss of Atma, not the pleasure of mind, the bodyor senses. All the latter forms of happiness are transient.

  Divine can be experienced when devotees follow the feet of lord.

I is the omnipresent entity in every living being. That’s why veda’s declare that ‘Aham Brahmashmi, I am Brahman.

Bottomline here is that when jeeva sheds individual ego to pursue the liberation, the false ‘I’ shines as Atma, the divine illumination becoming and being. This essentially is goal of human life.

Self-realisation is the knowledge that ‘I am the truth of me’ or ‘all are one atma’. This is what every person has to discover for himself.