There is no self, said a Self to itself...
that is what the scriptures say, so it must be true
From all things interconnected all things rise...
so that Self dissolves itself in this interconnected goo
How do you know that another self asks...
Have you realized that you don't exist?
Then who is asking these questions...
are they rising from this interconnected mist?
The first self bristles...
and then hurriedly replies
Don't you understand the scriptures? The Self is a big lie!
The second self asks...
Then who is reading the scriptures and who has heard those lies?
The first self responds...
No one has read the scriptures and no one heard those lies
We are simply ghosts you see
we simply interconnectedly dissolve and rise
The second self scratches his head
and asks in surprise
If no one exists really at all
then from whence rises this I?
And then he continues to think about it...
You or I can only think and articulate our thoughts
because we accept that "I am" ...
and something else naught!
In order to know "I am"
I surely have to be
Because if I do not exist
How could I even start to see
In order to know that
that which "I am"
I have to dissolve...
All those things that interconnectedly rise and fall
Where do I know these things...
these interconnected things?
I see them in the field of mind...
Jetsam and flotsam, in a constant flowing stream
When the debris has been dissolved enough
that which remains
surely that must be that "I"
the "I" that "I am"
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If the created I had not been created at all, it would not have to search for the real I wherefrom it always has the potential of being created. Having been created, it must suffer its separate-seeming existence and seek and seek till losing itself into the only I. Separate seeming is separate for the created I, because, till it is dissolved it sees what it sees, and often knows only what it sees.
Regards. Partha.