The way of the bird

is an illusion. "We" do not exist as individuals because the whole process is the Self
seeking Itself in order to unite with Itself.
The realization of that fact is not there during the search. What "we" are in reality is
knowledge itself. That knowledge or power does not know any objects. Only the human
mind knows objects. As humans, we project this kind of knowing onto the divine and so
create a God in our own image. This is a comfortable point of view, but it is one which
ultimately gets given up in the final understanding of the non-dual nature of reality.
4.7 "With that power I see. Power doesn't see."
"Seeing" occurs in the waking state. It is a physiological function, involving lenses and
color filters, the nervous system, and the brain. All the senses operate in a similar fashion.
The power makes them work, but the power does not see or hear, touch or taste.
Electricity makes a computer work, but electricity does not produce the text on the screen
or calculate the numbers. The computer's hardware and software does that.
4.8 "I am the power that is in the body."
Identification with the body makes you feel that the thoughts are "my" thoughts and that
the sense perceptions are "my" perceptions. Actually the body and mind are lifeless.
There is nobody there! There is no individual person. The so-called individual is only a
concept of that inert body and mind. "I" actually refers to the power that happens to be in
the body. This "I" is also everywhere else, giving life to all the bodies and all the minds.
How can "I" be everywhere? "I" as an individual cannot, but that "I" has never existed.
The real "I" has always been everywhere as the eternal subject. Only the concept of
individual existence was wrong.
4.9 "Go to the root of the mind. Mind and knowledge do not remain."
If the Self does not have a concept of its own existence, then it essentially does not have a
mind. That does not mean that the Self does not exist, only that there is no
conceptualizing in it. The individual person and the whole world that appears to that
individual are built out of concepts and are based on the fundamental concept "I am."
One's very existence as a person is based on a concept. There is therefore a great fear of
losing that concept, which is called the fear of death. All such problems arise from the
identification of the Self with a concept. But that concept of individual existence arose
for reasons that cannot be known to the individual mind, because the mind is itself a
product of that arising. The Self was already there. That was your condition as an infant.
You had no knowledge of your own existence. That knowledge was there only as a seed,
as potential. It didn't bother to ask you if it was OK with you if it appeared and sprouted
into a complete world-picture. Now that it has appeared and "you" have appeared along
with it, "you" must return to that condition before the seed sprouted. Then, mind becomes
no-mind and there is no longer any "you." The Self remains at peace, resting in Its true
nature.