44.
Abide in the knowledge ‘I am’
without identifying with the body.
How
did you function before the
arrival of the knowledge ‘I am’?
In
order to understand this you
will have to go back again,
apply your mind and
just
try to recollect that moment
when you came to know that ‘you
are’.
This
occurred somewhere around the
age of three, but before that
you were still
functioning
without any problem from
conception to the arrival of ‘I
am’.
What about things prior to
conception? Have you ever given
any thought to that?
You
had no requirements whatsoever,
even after the arrival of the ‘I
am’
in its nascent non-verbal state
there were no problems.
During
that period of the word-free ‘I
am’ you were not aware of the
body at all,
that is where you have to come
back to and reside.