From where does the feeling of “I” come?

In what does all this appear? By whom is it known? By what great power can something seem to exist? Indeed, the entire universe exists by a power that is universe-transcendent, pure Existence, and this Existence is truly you.

What is the nature of the one who makes the connection?

Sensation is an appearance in the mind and an activity of the mind.

With the misidentification with the body, there is suffering. Freedom from misidentification is the destruction of suffering.

Paths are spoken of in reference to an ego. The path of karma is spoken of in order to reduce or destroy the ego.

If you persist in an earnest inquiry to know yourself, even if the obstacles appear, they will melt before you.

The senses actually do not draw you out. You imagine the outside and then imagine yourself in the outside. The sensations are innocent. They do not turn you in or out. It is entirely a matter of knowing what you truly are and not deviating from this knowledge.

The universe is dependent upon Existence. Everything that you think about depends on your own existence even to appear, but the existence, itself, which is the existence that seems to be you and that seems to be this universe, is self-existent and does not depend on anything else in order to be.