There must be love

in the relation between the person who says ‘I am’

and the observer of the ‘I am’.

As long as the observer, the inner self; the ‘higher’ self

considers himself apart from the observed,

the ‘lower’ self, despises it and condemns it,

the situation is hopeless.

It is only when the observer (‘vyakta’)

accepts the person (‘vyakti’) as a projection or manifestation of himself,

and so to say, takes the self into the Self,

the duality of ‘I’ and ‘this’ goes

and the identity of the outer and the inner, 

the Supreme Reality manifests itself.

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-Sri Nisardadatta Maharaj