Eternal Now
Ashtavakra Gita – Bible – Bhagavad Gita – Nisargadatta – G.I. Gurdjieff
Ashtavakra Gita
15.17
One who knows for certain
that the universe is illusion,
a no-thing,
becomes desireless,
pure Awareness,
and finds peace in the existence of nothing.
15.18
In the ocean of existence
only One is, was, and ever will be.
You are neither bound nor free.
Live content and be happy.

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John 8:48-59
‘’Before Abraham Was, I Am’’
48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. 51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’[a] 55 But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”[b] 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

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Bhagavad Gita
4.3
The same ancient knowledge of Yog, which is the supreme secret, I am today revealing unto you, because you are my friend as well as my devotee, who can understand this transcendental wisdom.
4:4
Arjun said: You were born much after Vivasvan. How am I to understand that in the beginning you instructed this science to him?
4:5
The Supreme Lord said: Both you and I have had many births, O Arjun. You have forgotten them, while I remember them all, O Parantapa.
4:6
Although I am unborn, the Lord of all living entities, and have an imperishable nature, yet I appear in this world by virtue of Yogmaya, my divine power.

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Nisargadatta – ‘I am that’
Q: Obviously, I am not all-pervading and eternal. I am only here and now.
M: Good enough. The ‘here’ is everywhere and the now — always. Go beyond the ‘I-am-the-body’ idea and you will find that space and time are in you and not you in space and time. Once you have understood this, the main obstacle to realisation is removed.
M.: I am real for I am always now, in the present, and what is with me now shares in my reality. (…) A thing focussed in the now is with me, for I am ever present; it is my own reality that I impart to the present event.
Past and future are in mind only — I am now.

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G.I. Gurdjieff – ‘All and Everything’
‘’Life is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’’’

Thanks to Anna Bharati Wysocka