2018 (#1a) Sri Ramana Maharshi , Mathew 3:15 , Derrida , Genesis 1:13 (“the real Self (Atman) is waiting there to receive you , Let it be so now , the need for figuration, for myth, for tropes, for twists and turns , Let there be light , this taking the place one has of the arkhe , it lies beyond apparent light or darkness , everyone is in fact Self-realized , it is not anything new to be acquired”)

You see the difficulty. Self-enquiry, ‘Who am I?’ is a
different technique from the meditation – ‘I am Siva’, or ‘I
am He’. I rather emphasise Self-Knowledge, for you are first
concerned with yourself before you proceed to know the world
or its Lord. The ‘I am He’ or ‘I am Brahman’, meditation is
more or less mental, but the quest for the Self of which I
speak is a direct method and is superior to it. For, the moment
you get into the quest for the Self and begin to go deeper, the
real Self is waiting there to receive you and then whatever is
to be done is done by something else and you, as an individual,
have no hand in it. In this process all doubts and discussions
are automatically given up, just as one who sleeps forgets all
his cares for the time being (Sri Ramana Maharshi)

Jesus replied, ‘Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.’ (Mathew 3:15)

of language to itself and to meaning, and so forth, it also tells of the need for figuration , for myth, for tropes, for twists and turns (Derrida)

And God said ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)

There, we said, and in this place. How are we to think of there? And this taking place or this having a place, this taking the place one has of the arkhe? (Derrida)

Everyone is the Self and indeed, is infinite. Yet each person
mistakes his body for his Self. In order to know anything,
illumination is necessary. This can only be of the nature of Light;
however, it lights up both physical light and physical darkness.
That is to say, that it lies beyond apparent light and darkness. It
is itself neither, but it is said to be light because it illumines
both. It is infinite and is Consciousness. Consciousness is the
Self of which everyone is aware. No one is ever away from the
Self and therefore everyone is in fact Self-realised; only – and
this is the great mystery – people do not know this and want to
realise the Self. Realisation consists only in getting rid of the
false idea that one is not realised. It is not anything new to be
acquired. It must already exist or it would not be eternal and
only what is eternal is worth striving for

(Sri Ramana Maharshi)