95.
When you say ‘I was not prior to conception’ you actually mean
not like the present ‘I am’,
but
the one that discerns the absence of the present ‘I am’ was
there.
Again, when you ponder on the question ‘What was I prior to
conception?’, you at once realize that
‘you
were not there’.
What
you mean is you were not there as you presently are - that is
you had no shape or form or name.
There is ‘someone’ who sees the absence of the present ‘I am’
and that ‘someone’ has always been there
and
will continue to be there, as that ‘someone’ is
indestructible: it is the Absolute.