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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(beyond turiya) and living in (as) the
Reality.
The Guru in describing his own state or standpoint
makes the whole teaching so simple and clear, it
could not be put in a simpler way. The ‘I am’ has
to be understood in its purity, when it just arises
and is wordless. This can be done by either
recollecting the moment it arose at around three
years of age or by trying to catch it when you just
wake up from deep sleep. In this pure state it is the
‘Turiya’ or the fourth state which is always there in
the background and on which rest the other three,
that is waking, dreaming and deep sleep. On
entering and abiding in the ‘Turiya’ or fourth state
you can go beyond it into the ‘Turiyatita’ or
beyond the fourth and live as the Absolute or
‘Parabrahman’, which is the Reality.
222. Repetition of a ‘mantra’ takes one to
the pure ‘I am’, where all knowledge is
surrendered, you merge with the
Absolute beyond all name and form.
‘Japa’ or the repetition of a mantra like ‘So Hum’
(I am That) or ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am Brahman)
for a long time takes you to the state of the pure ‘I
am’. On residing in the ‘I am’, a moment comes
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