Is the ‘I Am’ the Highest Truth or the Seed of Ignorance?

"How can I reconcile different teachings about the ‘I am’ when some call it the highest truth and others call it an illusion? Rupert says: ‘Ramana Maharshi uses the term “I am” in the same way that I do, as the highest truth. Nisargadatta says it’s the seed of ignorance. Is it that one of them is right and one is wrong? No . . . They’re seeing it from two different points of view . . . If reality, the infinite, the One, were able to say something about itself, all it would say is “I am” . . . Reality’s experience of itself must be the only true experience of reality . . . Now, why did Nisargadatta say that the I am was a seed of ignorance? Because in order to express the “I am”, the infinite must first have localised itself or seem to have localised itself as a finite mind . . . Both points of view are true, relative to the perspective from which they are spoken.’"

From event 07 May, 2025 Webinar – Wednesday, 7 May

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