Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

176. Stabilize in the ‘Bindu’ (Point) ‘I
am’ and transcend it. ‘Bindu’ means
without duality (Bin=without, Du=two).
It is the ‘I am’ again and it has been given a new
name for a better understanding: the ‘Bindu’
(point), which when split into two words ‘Bin’ and
‘Du’ means without duality. How is this so? As the
focus of your meditation on the ‘I am’ (or when the
knowledge ‘I am’) meditates on itself for a
prolonged period, a stage comes when it is only the
‘I am’ everywhere. When this happens, there is
nothing else but the ‘I am’, it is a non-dual state.
This ‘Bindu’ (point) is located nowhere yet is
everywhere, it is there indwelling in you, find it and
get stabilized in it.
177. It is the ‘I am’ that investigates the ‘I
am’. Realizing its falsehood it disappears
and merges into Eternity.
In this very moment as you are reading through
these lines, or as you ponder over them, who is it
that is doing so? It is the knowledge ‘I am’
investigating the ‘I am’. All this that you are doing
has the ‘I am’ in the background. The ‘I am’ is the
driving force behind this entire undertaking; it
desperately wants to know what it is. As the