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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Throwing aside everything that does not go with ‘I
am’ bring down your focus to the wordless ‘I am’.
For this you would have to apply your mind revert
and try to recollect the very first moment when you
came to know that ‘you are’. That first, nascent
word-free ‘I am’ is what you have to catch hold of
during meditation and dwell there and not let it slip
off your hands. In the process you would realize
that you as the Absolute are not the quality ‘I am’
which in fact belongs to the five elemental body
along with the three qualities. The three qualities
being ‘Sattva’ (knowledge),’ Rajas’ (activity) and
‘Tamas’ (inertia), of which the ‘I am’ is ‘Sattva’.
97. Do nothing but stay in the
knowledge ‘I am’ – the ‘moolmaya’ –
the primary illusion, and then it will
release its stranglehold on you and get
lost.
Once you have understood the knowledge ‘I am’
you have to do nothing but just abide in it. The ‘I
am’ is the primary illusion or concept and is also
known as the ‘moolmaya’ (rootmaya). Presently
you are in the firm grip of this Maya (illusion),
come to the root of this Maya, which is the ‘I am’.
On abiding in the ‘I am’ in fact you are now
holding the root of the Maya or you are holding its
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