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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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200. A ‘Jnani’ is one who has come to a

conclusion about the raw material ‘I am’

and stands apart from it.

Who is a ‘Jnani’ (a man of wisdom)? He is a

‘Jnani’ who has not only understood and

developed a firm conviction about the knowledge ‘I

am’, but has also transcended it. He (the ‘Jnani’)

could achieve this through the ‘Sadhana’

(practice) of meditating on the ‘I am’ for a

reasonable amount of time and in the process went

beyond and stood apart from it. Having done so, he

is out of the cycles of birth and death.

201. That soundless sound, the humming

‘I am’ is a reminder that you are God. To

understand and realize it, meditate on it.

The sound ‘So Hum’, observed while inhaling and

exhaling during the breathing process is extremely

subtle. The humming of the ‘I am’ is even subtler

than this and has been called the ‘soundless

sound’, it is a constant reminder that you are God.

Meditation on that soundless or wordless ‘I am’ is

recommended as a means to understand and

realize it. Theoretical or verbal understanding of

the ‘I am’ is not enough, you have to actually

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