then you fail to understand the difference between the “I” that you use and the “I” that I use. That makes the difference! The “I” that most people use indicates the ego, body, mind and senses. It indicates someone who is born. You consider yourself to have a form and thus you want a name and the most basic name is “I.” But when you sleep there is no “I.” Then who is there when you are sleeping and when you are awake?

Simply keep Quiet and do not look at the quietness

or the form, or the name. Then you will see

that some sort of Awareness is still there.

This is called Aham Brahmasmi.

Don’t touch any object, place or concept for one second and you will see that there is a super Consciousness without name and form. It is That which is the true “I!” When you go to It you are no longer there and It speaks “I!”

Swami Rama Tirtha speaks of this “I” so beautifully. At the age of 24 he realized himself and said:

“When I wake up the whole world wakes up.

When I eat the whole world eats.

When I sleep the whole world sleeps.

“Let this body go, I do not care,

for I move as the breeze

and kiss the flowers and plants

and touch the Himalayan waterfalls.”