Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

that ‘it is’, although this knowing is of no use to the
Absolute nor does it depend on it.
171. Waking, dreaming and deep sleep
states pertain only to the ‘I am’, you are
above these.
The three states of waking, dreaming and deep
sleep that all of us commonly experience are in fact
based on the ‘I am’ or the ‘Turiya’, the fourth
state. Different ways of similar fourfold
classification are found abundantly in ancient
literature, these are: the four bodies (gross, subtle,
causal and supra-causal) or the four forms of
‘Vani’ or Speech (‘Vaikhari’=spoken word,
‘Madhyama’=tangible word in thought,
‘Pashyanti’= intangible word in formation and
‘Para’=source word). Whichever way we may
describe these states, your true natural Absolute or
‘Parabrahman’ state is above all these. The ‘I am’
or ‘Turiya’ only appears on the Absolute and leads
to the other three states and experience of the
world.
172. When you go deep inside, nothing is
all there is. There is no ‘I am’. The ‘I
am’ merges in the Absolute.