Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

161. The ‘I am’ is the divinity in you and
cause of the sacred repetition (‘Japa’) in
you breath of ‘So Hum’ (I am ‘That’).
The ‘I am’ is the divinity or God in you and makes
its presence felt through the sacred repetition or
‘Japa’ continuously going on in you in the form
of breath. The ancient ones carefully observed
the breath and found two subtle sounds in it at
every inhalation and exhalation. When you
inhale deeply and slowly you can hear ‘Soooo’
and when you exhale, again slowly you can hear
‘Huuum’. These sounds are called ‘So Hum’,
which in Sanskrit means ‘I am That’. Many
practitioners do this meditation of focusing their
attention on the breath and observing the sound
‘So Hum’, which is regarded as a ‘mantra’
(condensed sacred words with a deep meaning).
162. The Absolute doesn’t know that ‘It
is’. Only when the knowledge ‘I am’
spontaneously appeared did it know ‘It
is’.
There is no question of there being any experience
in the Absolute or the ‘Parabrahman’. All
experiences demand the necessity of duality in the