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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You were ‘not there’ and spontaneously ‘you are’,
the ‘I am’ has ‘appeared’ on your Absolute state.
Was there any volition on your part in it? Not at
all, it’s like the dream which only ‘appears’ nonvolitionally
when you fall asleep. The dream
‘appears’ to be true as long it lasts and like the
dream, the ‘I am’ too is an illusion only true as
long it lasts. With the disappearance of ‘I am’ you
are in your Absolute state.
118. This knowledge ‘I am’, the ‘sattva’
cannot tolerate itself, so it needs the
‘rajas’ (doing) and ‘tamas’ (claiming
doership) for sustenance.
Understanding the ‘I am’ is one thing and abiding
in the ‘I am’ is quite a challenging task. It sounds
simple but the ‘Sadhana’ (practice) requires
considerable determination and earnestness on
part of the seeker. It is made clear here that the ‘I
am’ in its purity is the ‘sattva’ quality which
cannot tolerate itself (no wonder you slip!). The
‘sattva’ constantly demands the companionship of
the qualities ‘rajas’ (doing) and ‘tamas’ (claiming
doership). But this is a battle against the current,
remember you are reverting, so hold on to the ‘I
am’ and persist with it.
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