I Am — A Story of Illusion
108 Aphorisms from “I” to Silence
✍🏻 — 𝓐𝓰𝓎𝓪𝓣 𝓐𝓰𝓎𝓪𝓷𝓲
> “There is no need to search for God —
only drop the illusion that ‘I am’.
When the ‘I’ falls, God is revealed.
Nothing new is found —
only the veil is removed.”
✍🏻 — 𝓐𝓰𝓎𝓪𝓷𝓲
---
🔹 108 APHORISMS
1. “I am” itself is the illusion.
2. God exists where the “I” does not.
3. Religion begins with the end of “I”.
4. As long as “I” exists, the center of the world is distorted.
5. When the wall of “I” falls, the sky of the Absolute opens.
6. What you call “I” is a collection of memory, identity, and habit.
7. Knowing the “I” is not wisdom — seeing it dissolve is.
8. Religion is useful only as long as it melts the “I”.
9. One who says “I know” has not tasted silence.
10. Every effort of the “I” creates distance from God.
11. Devotion is that which burns the “I” to ashes.
12. Whatever is “mine” is bondage.
13. Scriptures are not paths — they are only pointers.
14. Silence is closest to truth.
15. The doorway to truth is silence, not words.
16. The death of “I” is the birth of the soul.
17. The soul is not an object — it is a direction.
18. Practice remains illusion as long as the practitioner exists.
19. True meditation happens where there is no meditator.
20. The “I” says, “This is my experience” — and illusion is born.
21. Experience is true only where the “I” is absent.
22. Every search confirms the “I”.
23. One finds not by searching — but by losing.
24. When the “I” disappeared, everything was clear.
25. The “I” seeks attainment — silence seeks nothing.
26. Liberation is not an achievement — it is the dissolution of illusion.
27. The “I” cannot be improved — abandoning it is purification.
28. You are nothing — and that is the most beautiful truth.
29. The desire to be the owner is the subtlest ego.
30. At the root of all religions lies one problem — the permanence of “I”.
31. What the “I” knows belongs to the past.
32. Truth is now — and the “I” is never now.
33. As long as you are the doer, you are in bondage.
34. Life happens — you can only be a witness.
35. The “I” is a shadow formed by light and matter.
36. A shadow cannot be held — it can only be seen.
37. In silence, the witness is born.
38. The witness never claims — it only sees.
39. One who claims is a knower, not a wise one.
40. Knowledge that fits into words is not truth — truth flows in silence.
41. What remains beyond silence is Brahman.
42. God cannot be touched — but can be lived as oneself.
43. Brahman is not discovered — it is revealed through acceptance.
44. Surrender is the dissolution of “I” — and the rise of God.
45. There is no method of surrender — only exhaustion and silence.
46. The exhaustion of “I” is the peak of practice.
47. Intellect asks questions — silence answers.
48. Where no answer remains, there is nirvana.
49. The soul is not to be known — it is to be lost into.
50. One who has known becomes silent — one who speaks is still searching.
51. Words cannot touch truth — they only point towards it.
52. The “I” is the center of words — silence dissolves it.
53. Loving the “I” is hostility toward oneself.
54. In love, the “I” has no place.
55. Where there is love, there is no other.
56. Without the end of duality, love remains incomplete.
57. In complete love, only silence remains.
58. Silence is the gate through which Brahman enters.
59. Silence is not a practice — it is natural.
60. The natural is free from “I”.
61. The more you become, the more you lose.
62. One who becomes empty becomes whole.
63. Wholeness is not something — it is the absence of “I”.
64. Desire is another name for “I”.
65. Desire does not liberate — it binds.
66. Renunciation means the dissolution of desire.
67. Where there is no desire, there is love.
68. Death exists because of the “I”.
69. Death is the merging of “I” — not of the body.
70. The body leaving is natural — the leaving of “I” is liberation.
71. Love the body — but do not own it.
72. One who does not go beyond the body cannot know the soul.
73. The soul is not what you think — it is beyond thought.
74. Thought moves only as far as the “I”.
75. Where thought breaks, truth begins.
76. Truth is not an end — it is the continuous falling of “I”.
77. One who falls is the one who flies.
78. When “I” dissolves, infinity begins.
79. Infinity has no name.
80. Names are the walls of “I”.
81. When walls fall, the sky appears.
82. Brahman is where there are no limits.
83. Limits are human illusions.
84. Illusion exists only as long as the “I” exists.
85. The “I” has no center — it is only a habit.
86. When the habit breaks, the “I” breaks.
87. Liberation lies beyond habits.
88. Liberation is not a doorway — it is an ending.
89. Where there is an end, there is a beginning.
90. Beginning and end are illusions of “I”.
91. Silence has neither beginning nor end — it is eternal.
92. In the eternal, the soul blossoms.
93. The soul does not blossom — it is simply revealed.
94. That which already exists cannot be searched.
95. When searching ends, seeing begins.
96. Seeing is vision beyond “I”.
97. The witness itself is the soul — and the witness is silence.
98. Silence is religion — everything else is its doorway.
99. Religion is not an institution — it is an inner journey.
100. The journey ends where no traveler remains.
101. When no one remains, everything happens.
102. Allowing things to happen — that is meditation.
103. Meditation is not effort — it is the end of effort.
104. Effort belongs to the “I” — silence is effortless.
105. Silence has no language — yet it says everything.
106. Saying everything is silence — because there is no speaker.
107. Where the speaker disappears, the listener is born.
108. Silence is the final answer.
