Although Atmananda loved to use words like Consciousness and Happiness in order to refer to the Ultimate, a quote like this shows that ultimately he preferred the term ‘I’-Principle (he once even said that compared to the ‘I’-Principle the word Consciousness may be called theory!2). He did so because he considered that the word ‘I’ has the least chance of being mistaken. Everything that can be perceived is liable to mistakes, however that which can be called ‘yourself’, that which cannot be perceived, ‘I’, cannot cause any mistaking.3 He considered the ‘I’-Principle to be everybody’s true
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