35. When you know both the ‘I am’ and the ‘I
am not’
then you are the Absolute which transcends
both
knowingness and not-knowingness.
As you abide in the ‘I am’ for a longer
time you shall
also realize the state of ‘I am not’ or
there will be a
state of ‘knowing’ and ‘not-knowing’.
Both these states are states of
consciousness in its purity;
they are the very beginnings of duality.
The
very arrival of the concept ‘I am’ implies
the ‘I am not’
hidden in it or ‘knowing’ has
‘not-knowing’ implied in it,
they are opposites, they are pairs and
always go together
and are impossible to separate.
But
you are the Absolute which transcends both
of them;
you
are a witness to both these states, they
have only appeared
on you, they never belonged to you and are
illusory.