Student Question: You say that whatever adjective that goes after the “I am” is wrong. So what do you think about those affirmations in which you say “I am the Light,” etc. Where is the mistake there?

“They’re good antidotes against negative thoughts,” elucidates Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “But, ultimately, as long as we remain attached to words, then we are in the image of that rather than the reality of it. . . . So we want to be free from language, and from any other form of representation so that we can experience the Supreme Real.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 9, 2010.