Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

when desire was unexpressed is presently your
goal. As you abide in it with full understanding a
stage will come when you are aware of the ‘I
am’ only. It is only on reaching this stage you
will have transcended all desires and they won’t
trouble you anymore.
158. Be one with the Self, the ‘I am’. If
necessary discard the words ‘I am’, even
without them you know ‘you are’.
You have to totally identify yourself with the
indwelling knowledge ‘I am’ in you. This
knowledge ‘I am’, or sense of ‘presence’ has
spontaneously dawned on you; it came without
your asking or willing it to be so. When it came it
was wordless, just a feeling of ‘being’, and as long
as it prevailed words were not required and life
went on. It was only when your conditioning began
that words and language intruded and soon took
over. This takeover has been so complete that you
cannot conceive of a life without words, which now
exist as concepts. So, in order to make your
meditation effective, you are asked to discard the
words ‘I am’, because even without them ‘you are’.