Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

combination of the elements and qualities is, so the
expression of ‘I am’. This expression could be good
or bad depending on the combination, but the ‘I
am’ itself stands in its purity. Understanding the ‘I
am’ is the very basis of the teaching, that done,
there remains nothing further to be understood.
What follows hereafter is the ‘Sadhana’ (practice),
which is the meditation on the ‘I am’. Your
earnestness, sincerity and intensity of the practice
will determine further progress.
168. When you are established in the ‘I
am’ there are no thoughts or words, you
are everything and everything is you;
later even that goes.
As your ‘Sadhana’ (practice) matures, your
conviction grows stronger and you get firmly
established in the ‘I am’. That is to say, you are
permanently established in the ‘Turiya’ or the
fourth state. In this state there are no thoughts or
words, everywhere there is only the ‘I am’, you are
everything and everything is you. When you abide
thus, the stage is set for your transcending the ‘I
am’. Ultimately that too goes, leaving you as the
Absolute or ‘Parabrahman’.