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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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187. Don’t bother about anything, just

continue abiding in the ‘I am’, a moment

will come when it will be pleased and

reveal all the secrets.

There would be periods of frustration; there would

be periods of doubt. Your worldly involvements

would hamper your ‘Sadhana’ (practice) and an

atmosphere of defeat would prevail. But, come

what may, just throw aside everything, don’t bother

about anything and continue your abidance in the

‘I am’ with all earnestness. The ‘I am’ would test

your endurance but a moment would come when it

will be pleased with you, become your friend and

release its stranglehold on you.

188. The trap of birth and death is

because of the ‘I am’, dwell on it, realize

it and transcend it.

Just observe the Janus-like nature of the ‘I am’. It

acts like a foe when it has laid this trap of birth

and death into which you fall. Once you are

trapped, it would require an extraordinary effort to

get out of it. If you are fortunate enough to come

across the right Guru or his teachings only then

you stand a chance of getting out of this trap. The

Guru’s words are very simple and straightforward:

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