71.
At the moment all you know
is the ‘I am’, which is a
product of the five
elements,
three qualities or the
food body, but you are
none of these.
The
‘I am’ emanates from the
five elements and three
qualities that make up
the body-mind
which
can also be called the
food body.
It
is food that sustains
the body using the vital
breath.
The
‘I am’ is the very
essence of the food
body, which is a
composite of the
elements and
qualities.
Since this is nothing
but an assembly that
will disintegrate one
day, it is dependent and
transient and hence does
not qualify as the real
or truth.
But
to understand the
unreality of all this,
especially the ‘I am’,
you have to meditate on
it,
then
you will know that you
are none of these.
In
fact you were never any
of these; it was the
deceptive game of ‘I am’
that made you believe
what
you are not.