I have spoken about the concept of “I AM“in a previous YouTube video clip.
It’s a very important concept; you find that appearing as early as Moses in the Exodus.
Moses asks God’s name, He says “I am that I am” was the answer and then you find this
concept explained and debated down the centuries till our modern times where you find Ken Wilber
talking a lot about living the “I AM’’.
“I am the way” Jesus said and it got him into problem.
The Vedantins who are the mainline tradition of the Hindus also use the word “I AM”
“Aham Brahmasmi” “I am God”.
In the earlier video piece, I said what is this “I AM”?
Is that just empting the mind and coming into a condition of thoughtlessness that is “I
AM”?
Or it is something else?
Kashmiri Shaivism makes a point that just merely empting the mind and being in a state
of thoughtlessness or Divine coma is not the “I AM”.
“I AM” is being one with God or according to the Kashmiri Shaivites: the Goddess, not
Siva, the God; it is pure delight, not just losing yourself and being a vegetable.
It is being immensely powerful and when you are the “I AM” like God told Moses, actually
he saw God as light.
So when you really get to the real “I AM”, the body will turn into light and that is
the proof that anybody has gone and realized the “I AM” in its total potential.
Otherwise just empting the mind is not the “I AM” and several other traditions have
taken that just being a thoughtless condition as “I AM”.
Nirvikalpa Samadhi has been misunderstood.
Nir Vikalpa means without thoughts, but not simply being without thoughts is Nirvikalpa
Samadhi.
Nirvikalpa Samadhi is equivalent to being God and not just a thought free existence.
This understanding is very useful for all those who seek enlightenment.