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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and final rest. In this state both the ‘I am’ and ‘I
am not’ are forgotten which are in fact aspects of
the consciousness and you are none of these. The
word ‘Param Vishranti’ has been described to
mean as ultimately forget everything in the end (in
Marathi, param=ultimately, visra=forget, anti=in
the end).
107. Having acquired and understood the
knowledge ‘I am’ stay there in seclusion
and don’t wander around here and there.
Getting stabilized in the knowledge ‘I am’, even
after having understood it, is extremely difficult.
Your identification with the body is one thing that
stands in between and the other is the mind which
although having understood it, is sub-consciously
not prepared to accept the teaching. The mind
keeps prompting you ‘This can’t be it, it’s too
simple’, ‘Try this’, ‘Try that’, ‘It has to be very
complex, search more’ and so on, thus the
wandering continues endlessly and you remain
where you are. The Guru perceives this difficulty
and hence advises you to stay in seclusion – not
from the society – but from thoughts, just in the
sense of ‘being’ or ‘I am’ and never wandering
away from it. Remember that not wandering by
physical seclusion maybe helpful but is quite
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