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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come to be is of no importance, it is the feeling ‘I
am’, that too in its wordless nascent state is
important, you have to reside there.
79. First came the ‘aham’ as ‘I am’, then
‘aham-akar’ (identification with body,
ego), now revert back to ‘aham’,
dwelling there realize ‘ahambrahmasmi’
The feeling ‘I am’ or ‘Aham’ was the first to
appear and then it identified with the body and
became ‘I am so and so’ or ‘Ahamkar’ (Aham= I
am+Akar=this shape or form or body=Ahamkar
meaning the Ego). Now leave aside the shape or
body or ‘Akar’, revert and stabilize in the ‘Aham’
or ‘I am’. Dwelling there realize that ‘I am
Brahman’ or ‘Ahambrahmasmi’.
80. You are neither the ‘I am’ nor the
activities carried out by the beingness,
you as the Absolute are none of these.
This mirage ‘I am’ has to be understood along with
all the tangle of activities that it indulges in. This
illusory ‘I am’ or ‘beingness’ is the very root of
everything, every activity you indulge in, every
action that you perform has the ‘I am’ as its basis.
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