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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whatsoever, all demands began with the arrival of
the ‘I am’ and what is this ‘I am’? It is nothing but
the essence of the five elements that make up the
body. The ‘I am’ depends on the body and is as
transient as the body and will go along with it so
none of them are true. What remains then? It is
only the Absolute.
30. You must not only have the
conviction that ‘I am’ but also that you
are free from the ‘I am’.
Clearly you can envisage two steps in the process
of self-discovery, the first one being the
understanding of the knowledge ‘I am’ and abiding
in it. You must develop the strong conviction that
‘you are’ and stay there. What would happen then?
By and by as you abide in the ‘I am’ the second
step would be to realize that you stand apart from
the ‘I am’, you are free from it! You are not the ‘I
am’ but its witness. Thus abidance in the ‘I am’
and its transcendence is the key to the whole
‘Sadhana’ (practice).
31. Remember the knowledge ‘I am’
only and give up the rest, staying in the
‘I am’ you would realize that it is unreal.
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