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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am’ for a prolonged period that a moment would
come when, quite spontaneously, you would also
know that ‘I am not’. This is the border zone and
the precise location where the intellect subsides
and you are in a state of ‘not-knowing’. This is
called the ‘Maha-yoga’ or the ‘Great-yoga’, the
union of ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ that is difficult to
come by, hence ‘Great’.
92. Recognize the Atman by
understanding the knowledge ‘I am’, the
Atma-jnana, which is all pervading,
limitless and infinite.
A very important statement was made earlier
where the knowledge ‘I am’ was said to be
‘Brahman’ and the ‘Parabrahman’ lies beyond it.
Another important statement is made here where
the ‘Atman’ or the Self is to be understood by
understanding the ‘I am’. The ‘I am’ is the
‘Atman’, the ‘Atman’ with qualities or identifying
itself with the body is the ‘Jivatman’ (Jiva=living
being). The ‘Atman’ without qualities is the
‘Nirmalatman’ (Nirmal=pure). The ‘Atman’
transcendent to both is the ‘Paramatman’ (The
ultimate transcendent Self). As you abide in the ‘I
am’ you would know the ‘Atman’ or Self in all its
aspects, and this is Atma-jnana or Self-knowledge.
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