A Krishna menon EYe I AM

 

Quotes on I & I am

“He who says, ‘I have consciousness,’ or ‘I am conscious,’ is separating consciousness from himself; this is surprising. What is not consciousness comes under the category of the known. The ‘I’ is always the knower and can never be the known. Therefore consciousness and the ‘I’ are one and the same … Even the word knower is wrong, because the changeless knower is knowledge (consciousness) itself; not an embodied being.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“That which shines just before and after every thought and feeling is the ‘I’. That is objectless consciousness … Objectless thought is one’s real domain, formless and changeless. It is this that is pointed to by the word ‘I’.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“The ‘I’ is always the perceiver and never an object of perception. As it is not an object of perception, direct contemplation of the ‘I’ is out of the question.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“Is not oneself (Consciousness), the real Perceiver? To examine thoughts one has to take one’s stand in perceiving Consciousness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“I am pure consciousness which knows no dissolution … All beings stand established as pure consciousness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“I am That which transcends all … I am the inmost principle which is Sat-Chit-Ananda itself.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“Whether objects are present or absent, I am always there without change … Whether the objects are present or absent, he who has seen pure consciousness stands in it always.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“It is in and through Me that all men see, yet they don’t see Me … I am that Consciousness that remains over after the removal of everything objective from Me … I am pure Consciousness. Realising that every object wherever placed is asserting Me, I enjoy Myself everywhere and in everything.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon

“I am the Light of Consciousness in all thoughts and perceptions and the Light of Love in all feelings. I have no birth and death, nor grief and delusion. I transcend bondage and liberation.”