Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita
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form of the experiencer (subject) and the
experienced (object). The Absolute is a non-dual
state, so who is to experience what? Moreover, the
Absolute, does not require any experience or the
need to know that ‘it is’. By the spontaneous
appearance of the knowledge ‘I am’ it came to
know that ‘it is’, yet it doesn’t require the ‘I am’ at
all, for it is complete in itself, devoid of any wants.
163. Become initiated into the
understanding of what I am expounding
to you; I am talking about the seed of
‘Brahman’ or ‘I am’ that I am planting in
you.
When the Guru is faced by a sincere seeker he is
very keen on imparting his knowledge to him, and
this itself is the initiation. His teaching is very
simple. He awakens you to the long lost ‘I am’ or
the ‘Brahman’, he calls it the planting of the
‘Brahma seed’ in you. It is just like on seeing or
coming across something desirable - you want it
desperately, the seeds of its acquisition are sown.
Because once the ‘Brahma seed’ is sown in you,
appropriate conditions prevailing, you will go to
any lengths to bring it to fruition.