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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sleeping. And ‘Turiyatita’ is even
beyond that.
Further commenting on the ‘Turiya’ the Guru
describes it as the ‘witness’ or the witnessing state
that lies behind the waking, dreaming and deep
sleep states; it does all the witnessing through
these three states. Deep earnest meditation as
prescribed by the Guru is required in order to get
stabilized in the ‘Turiya’ or the ‘I am’ and only
then you stand a chance of transcending the ‘I am’
and becoming a ‘Turiyatita’, the one beyond the
‘Turiya’ or the ‘I am’.
142. In the absence of the basic concept ‘I
am’, there is no thought, no awareness,
and no consciousness of one’s existence.
Understanding the importance of the basic concept
‘I am’ comes by constantly pondering on it. The
more you dwell on it, the more you realize that
‘yes, this is it’. On this ‘I am’ rests everything, all
the thoughts that prevail, all the actions that you
perform, the very awareness of your being, your
existence; the ‘I am’ gone all these go, like in the
state of deep sleep or that period before the ‘I am’
arose.
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