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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125. The knowledge ‘I am’ that appeared
in childhood is a cheat as it made you
believe the illusion to be true.
See how this knowledge ‘I am’ is a friend and foe
as well. As a friend it can show you the way out,
but, as a foe, it has also tricked you into believing
yourself to be a body. It has cheated you into
imagining yourself to be a person born in this
world and that you would die one day. This ‘Janus’
like nature of the ‘I am’ has to be understood, it is
the lord of the gates with two opposing faces.
126. This knowledge ‘I am’ has dawned
on you, thereafter witnessing began.
That ‘One’ to whom the witnessing takes
place is separate from the witnessed.
This knowledge ‘I am’ has come uncalled, it has
appeared or dawned on you without your asking
for it. It came very spontaneously and swiftly, and
before even you could do anything the witnessing
of space began. The ‘I am’ and space came
together, you ‘saw’ and felt the body and started
identifying the ‘I am’ with it. In the process of
reverting you ponder on the question ‘To whom is
the witnessing taking place?’ or ‘On whom did this
‘I am’ appear?’ Then you realize that the ‘One’
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