Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

serious illness? And the fear of death, and how it
will come, is always lurking there in the
background. But look what the Guru says! It is
something not only astonishing but rewarding as
well, it extricates you from all this bundle of
worries and apprehension. Why not take
knowledge ‘I am’ to be your destiny?
I will become the ‘I am’ only and nothing else –
that is my destiny. Abide in the ‘I am’ only,
meditate on the ‘I am’ only, day in and day out it is
the ‘I am’ only, everywhere and at all times. What
will happen on the acceptance of the ‘I am’ as your
destiny? You will transcend it and be free from the
clutches of birth and death, which is the greatest
reward you can ever imagine.
180. Along with the knowledge ‘I am’
appears space and the world. When the
knowledge ‘I am’ departs the world is
liquidated.
Think hard, apply your mind and try to recollect
the moment when the knowledge ‘I am’ first
appeared spontaneously and you came know that
‘you are’. If this is hard, then try to observe what
happens the next time you wake up from deep
sleep. The ‘I am’, space and the world appear
almost simultaneously, in one stroke, and then