Hay-Ku of the Day [The Light of Awareness I Am (OOMM2)]

Mental ignorance

Of the Light of Awareness 

Causes all darkness.

A Mental Mirror 

Which absorbs Light will project 

Darkness in its place. 

The Light of Conscious 

Awareness I Am is All --

The rest is darkness. 

The Light of Being 

Consciously Aware Is How 

I Know That I Am.

(1) Scripture-Wise:

" In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." (John 1:419 KJV)

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." (Matthew 5:14 KJV)

"As long as I Am in the world, I Am the light of the world." (John 9:5 KJV"

(2) Sri Nisargadatta- Wise

"In the immensity of consciousness a light appears, a tiny point that moves rapidly and traces shapes, thoughts and feelings, concepts and ideas, like a pen writing on paper. And the ink that leaves a trace is memory. You are that tiny point and by your movement the world is ever re-created. Stop moving and there will be no world. Look within and you will find that the point of light is the reflection of the immensity of light in the body as the sense ‘I am’. There is only light all else appears."

"To be the point of light (reflected as the sense ‘I am’) tracing the world is ‘turiya’. To be the light itself is ‘turiyatita’. But of what use are names when reality is so near?

-- Sri Nisargadatta

[Rich Note: The Sri Nisargadatta quotes are from Pradeep Apte's exhaustive collection of "I Am" references from the following 10 book transcriptions:

1. "I Am That" edited by Maurice Frydman 

2. "Seeds of Consciousness" edited by Jean Dunn 

3. "Prior to Consciousness" edited by Jean Dunn 

4. "Consciousness and the Absolute" edited by Jean Dunn 

5. "The Experience of Nothingness" edited by Robert Powell 

6. "The Nectar of Immortality" edited by Robert Powell 

7. "The Ultimate Medicine" edited by Robert Powell 

8. "Beyond Freedom" edited by Maria Jory 

9. "I am Unborn" edited by Pradeep Apte 

10. "Gleanings from Nisargadatta" edited by Mark West

Here's a related down link to "I AM":

http://stillnessspeaks.com/images/uploaded/file/iamquotesofnisargadatta.pdf. ]