I am

Yoga Discussion General Yoga
#1

I was reading meditation steps suggested on the http://aypsite.com/ website.

It talked about saying “I AM” in the mind. Is this a modified “OM” to give some meaning to the words that are chanted in english?

#2

“I Am” comes from the Bible. To make a long story short, the name of God given to Moses was “I Am That I Am”. It is often shortened to “I Am”. Since the syllable “Om” is the symbol of Isvara (The Lord), I Am could be considered an English equivalent to OM, although Om is technically not a name but a symbol.

#3

its inverted consciousness

#4

[QUOTE=Kizen;19362]its inverted consciousness[/QUOTE]

???.. care to elaborate?

#5

[QUOTE=Asuri;19390]???.. care to elaborate?[/QUOTE]
I am my job, this body, my status, a person with blue eyes, those would be outward, my heart, my brain, etc…

i am
something subtler than what I mentioned,

#6

I am –
present tense first person for the verb ‘to be’. English has only one ‘to be’; some languages have none, and some have different words for the different grammatical functions that ‘to be’ serves in English (cojugate verbs, ‘I am running’; transit adjectives ‘I am tall’,and compare nouns, ‘I am a girl’).
The discipline of holding your thoughts to the present, to the small circle of first person, and not allowing the thoughts to carry forward to a verb, noun, or adjective is one way of meditating.

Grammar is really neat sometimes.