Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

159. The ‘I am’ is the awareness before
thoughts, it cannot be put into words;
you have to ‘just be’.
When the knowledge ‘I am’ dawned on you, you
knew no words or language. It was an awareness
without or before thoughts. When we are using
words for communication, it should be quite
obvious that they cannot be used to describe the
wordless state! It can be hinted at, or can be
pointed out, but its real understanding will only
come by being it, so do away with words and ‘just
be’, then see what happens.
160. The ‘I am’ in you came from the ‘I
am’ in your parents, but only then could
they be called parents!
The fact that the ‘I am’ came from the ‘I am’ in
your parents, or that your parents created you is
the usual, conventional understanding. But just
think of it the other way around, your parents
could be called ‘parents’ only after your arrival,
not before that! Before that they were just a couple,
prospective parents, but not parents yet, until your
arrival. Looking at it in this manner, in a way, you
have created the ‘parents’. So who created whom?
Yet we talk of all this being the reality! Is it?