Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

150. Once you become the ‘I am’ it will
reveal all the knowledge and you need
not go to anybody for guidance.
The whole approach of the Guru towards anybody
who comes to him is: firstly, to make him
understand what the ‘I am’ is and secondly, to tell
him to abide in the ‘I am’ till he becomes the ‘I
am’. That is all that he does. The Guru’s job is
done, the rest is up to the seeker, his success totally
depending on how correctly he has understood the
‘I am’ and whether he is doing any ‘Sadhana’
(practice) or not. The Guru will, of course, leave
no stone unturned in imparting the teaching,
provided he finds an honest and sincere seeker
before him.
151. The primary concept ‘I am’ appears
spontaneously and is the source of all
concepts, so everything is mental
entertainment.
The first time when you came to know that ‘you
are’ or ‘I am’, how did it happen? Did you play
any part in bringing about this feeling? No, it came
quite spontaneously, on its own. In its nascent
phase the ‘I am’ was pure with nothing attached to
it, it was non-verbal. Gradually, as you grew up,