Nisargadatta_Gita
I found the talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj to be highly penetrating and many things that were usually vague became quite clear. It was just like the clouds clearing away leaving a perfectly blue spotless sky. After ‘I Am That’ by Maurice Frydman nine more books followed that covered almost all the talks, these books were: 1. Edited by Jean Dunn: Seeds of Consciousness, Prior to Consciousness and Consciousness and the Absolute. 2. Edited by Robert Powell: The Experience of Nothingness, The Nectar of Immortality and The Ultimate Medicine. 3. Edited Maria Jory: Beyond Freedom 4. E-book,Created by Vijay Deshpande and edited by me: I am Unborn. 5. Mark West’s: Gleanings from Nisargadatta. Throughout all these books the ‘I am’ theme was highly pre-dominant, so in the first phase I began compiling all the ‘I am’ quotes and this took quite some time. In all, these quotes were 572 in number of which 521 are available as an e-book at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/961481/I-AM-The-complete-I-AM-quotes-of-Sri- Nisargadatta-Maharaj The last 51 from Mark West’s book I could manage to procure very late but they have been included when I began preparing the text of ‘The Nisargadatta Gita’.
I found the talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj to be highly penetrating and many things
that were usually vague became quite clear. It was just like the clouds clearing away
leaving a perfectly blue spotless sky. After ‘I Am That’ by Maurice Frydman nine more
books followed that covered almost all the talks, these books were:
1. Edited by Jean Dunn: Seeds of Consciousness, Prior to Consciousness and
Consciousness and the Absolute.
2. Edited by Robert Powell: The Experience of Nothingness, The Nectar of Immortality
and The Ultimate Medicine.
3. Edited Maria Jory: Beyond Freedom
4. E-book,Created by Vijay Deshpande and edited by me: I am Unborn.
5. Mark West’s: Gleanings from Nisargadatta.
Throughout all these books the ‘I am’ theme was highly pre-dominant, so in the first
phase I began compiling all the ‘I am’ quotes and this took quite some time. In all, these
quotes were 572 in number of which 521 are available as an e-book at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/961481/I-AM-The-complete-I-AM-quotes-of-Sri-
Nisargadatta-Maharaj
The last 51 from Mark West’s book I could manage to procure very late but they have
been included when I began preparing the text of ‘The Nisargadatta Gita’.
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the Absolute with the spontaneous appearance of ‘I
am’. Just as you begin watching a dream as it
spontaneously appears on you, you are not actually
involved in any of the events that are dreamt. With
the appearance of the ‘I am’ the Absolute knows
that ‘it is’, although this knowing is of no use to the
Absolute nor does it depend on it.
171. Waking, dreaming and deep sleep
states pertain only to the ‘I am’, you are
above these.
The three states of waking, dreaming and deep
sleep that all of us commonly experience are in fact
based on the ‘I am’ or the ‘Turiya’, the fourth
state. Different ways of similar fourfold
classification are found abundantly in ancient
literature, these are: the four bodies (gross, subtle,
causal and supra-causal) or the four forms of
‘Vani’ or Speech (‘Vaikhari’=spoken word,
‘Madhyama’=tangible word in thought,
‘Pashyanti’= intangible word in formation and
‘Para’=source word). In any way we may describe
these states, your true natural Absolute or
‘Parabrahman’ state is above all these. The ‘I am’
or ‘Turiya’ only appears on the Absolute and leads
to the other three states and experience of the
world.
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