I am NOT That

[Shivani Devi]

Namaste and greetings to all.

With this post, I'll shall be taking leave from SF for a while...it may be days, weeks or months. I haven't decided yet.

I have reached a stalemate in regards to what can only be said and what can be directly experienced.

Has it become indeed possible, that by just uttering three magic words "I am that" and poof! bingo! presto! one has attained Brahman? The universal consciousness? realised Satchidananda? experienced the bliss that knows no limit? Achieved Samadhi on the spot without having to even do any sadhana? without even going through Patanjali's 7 limbs before jumping directly to the eighth one?

Then, whenever it gets mentioned, it's like "all that doesn't matter because I am that anyway so I don't need to do anything whatsoever".

So, they can still have their ego, still have their desires, their attachments, still have their anger and hatred, still sit in judgment over others...be like they were before they said "I am that" but saying it makes ALL the difference, because guess what, they are THAT now.

Meanwhile, for the limited few of us, who have spent countless hours in meditation, practicing kriyas, pranayama, dharana, worship...raising their kundalini to actually experience a unifying transcendental state for themselves, can only sit and wonder...my god! if it were only that easy to obtain samadhi and experientially realise the true nature of the atman beyond words, why oh why didn't the saints and sages of old say that to us in the FIRST place? It would have saved us all the trouble...who even knew that by just uttering those three words, one could transcend all material attachments, desires, experience cosmic consciousness? Well I'll be blowed.

Then the funny thing is that others will say "oh, that's because you haven't realised you are THAT yet"...gimme a break.

So, knowing that they won't, I've decided to impose one upon myself. I wish you all the best.

Iti Shivam