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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understand the ‘I am’, abide in it, realize it and
transcend it. When you abide in the ‘I am’ it
becomes your friend and helps you out.
189. Get established in the ‘I am’ without
words, the ‘Paravani’, but you the
Absolute are not that.
The ancient ones have classified ‘Vani’ or speech
into four categories: ‘Vaikhari’ which is the spoken
word, ‘Madhyama’ is of the mind or unspoken
tangible word, it is thought or thinking. Then
comes the ‘Pashyanti’ it is the formative stage
when the word is still intangible and finally is the
‘Para’ or the wordless source of all speech. When
we speak it involves all these in a brisk or swift
sequential movement. The ‘Vani’ (speech) is but
one, only for understanding it has been classified,
and it flows out in the order: Para, Pashyanti,
Madhyama and Vaikahri. These four in that order
are said to correspond to the ‘Turiya’ (the fourth),
deep sleep, dreaming and waking states of
consciousness. As you revert you come back from
the spoken word to the wordless ‘I am’ which is the
‘Turiya’ or ‘Paravani’ state. But you, the Absolute,
you are none of these.
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