Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I am not going to give you whatever you want.
I'm just going to tell you to emphasize what you are.
You want to convert or transform yourself into something saying, I want to become this.
I'm going to do that.
But I am going to tell you what is the root of you, the innermost core, what you are.
I am not a sculptor, you see.
I don't make images for you.
so that you can become that image.
The beginning and the end of this understanding is the knowledge, I am.
The beginning of concept started with the primary concept, I am.
having wandered through all the concepts and rejected them.
You have to get rid of this last or the first concept.
See this flame of the cigarette lighter?
It has appeared.
It has disappeared.
It's just like that.
Has it got any concept, this flame?
What is without concept is the most perfect, the most proper.
I know what you are, what you were prior to your I am-ness.
Understand consciousness and come to the conclusion that consciousness is not yourself.