"To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond; much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror, it becomes a part of living." - Nisargadatta, I Am That
Even allowing for the inadequacy of language to express the indescribable, the "state of pure awareness" still leaves me asking how awareness can be in the unmanifest beyond. Doesn't this suggest that "I Am" persists in the beyond and can somehow be this "pure awareness"? Western thinking gives us the adage "God is either everything or he is nothing". This seems to suggest that "God is both everything and nothing, and I Am God".
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