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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The ‘I am’ is the starter, the initiator, the very
beginning of everything including time. In fact all
measurement begins with the ‘I am’ and all
measurement including time ends with its
departure. It is the primary concept on which is
built the entire mansion of other concepts. The
knowledge ‘I am’ and space have appeared
simultaneously and spontaneously on you, the
Absolute, who stands apart.
35. When you know both the ‘I am’ and
the ‘I am not’ then you are the Absolute
which transcends both knowingness and
no-knowingness.
As you abide in the ‘I am’ for a longer time you
shall also realize the state of ‘I am not’ or there
would be a state of ‘knowing’ and ‘not-knowing’.
Both these states are states of consciousness in its
purity; they are the very beginnings of duality. The
very arrival of the concept ‘I am’ implies the ‘I am
not’ hidden in it or ‘knowing’ has ‘not-knowing’
implied in it, they are opposites, they are pairs and
always go together and are impossible to separate.
But you are the Absolute which transcends both of
them; you are a witness to both these states, they
have only appeared on you, they never belonged to
you and are illusory.
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