What does I I mean ?

[Guest guest]

By the one Christ I mean the

living God, awakeness, the Self,

I am, I-I, etc...

 

I have heard, but can quote no reference, that in the oldest Aramaic (Jesus'

spoken language) manuscript, John 14.6 reads

"I-I (eha eha) am the way the

truth and the light" Interesting

that near 2000 yrs later in another part of the world Ramana Maharshi, knowing

nothing of Aramaic manuscripts would use

the same construction in speaking

of the Self, to be found by

anyone by enquiring "Who am I?"

 

Interesting that the translations

would turn it into the personal and individual I.

 

By individual appearances and personalities no more than that;

transitory appearance,

transparent masks, I mean that

is all we are as material beings,

without substance beyond the purely physical, except for the indwelling and

universal Christ

or Self, which is

fundamentally all that is.

 

I said "as I see it, and that's

all that need be said because

I have no interest in arguing or attemting to convince anyone

that I am right. It is truly how

I see the world, how I see people.

A

 

Dear A:

 

I agree with your assessment. Christ is a beautiful symbol of

how the ego must be sacrificed in

order to merge with the God-head.

A question for you, if you will:

What does Sri Ramana mean when

he says "I-I"?

 

Does it mean "I am I"? Or, what

do you think?

 

Yes, I am I.

 

It's I absolute, I without reference to or dependancy on anything. The hyphen is

an

artifact of writing it down.

Ramana said I I .

 

""I am" is the name of God. Of all

the definitions of God, none is

indeed so well put as the

Biblical statement "I am that I am" in Exodus (Chapter 3)."

Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks With

Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 106,

page 102.

 

Another reflection, the rastas say "I and I" as you hear in reggae songs because

"I and you" or

"I and him" implies a division.

 

D: Arunachala Siva : verses

http://tinyurl.com/bes22

 

The Lamsa Bible [from arameic]

 

<http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Scriptures/LBP.htm>

 

love, Era