“You are before you describe yourself. No explanation has to bring your being about first.”
Inspired by Nisargadatta Maharaj
To the card
I Am That, dialogue 99, The Perceived Cannot Be the Perceiver; English translation by Maurice Frydman. Nisargadatta distinguishes immediate being oneself from self-definition and self-description. At the same time, the dialogue contains calls to inquiry and to truthful action. Freely phrased, not a literal quotation.
Source
Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, dialogue 99: The Perceived Cannot Be the Perceiver.
https://www.byronevents.net/nisargadatta/that10.htm
Rights
The contemporary work and Frydman’s translation have not been shown to be freely licensed. No original excerpt and no extensive rendering disguised as a new translation proposed. Own short card impulse retained.
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