Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

everything else takes over and the fact that those
three have ‘appeared’ on you is obliterated. What
is it that is holding this perception of yours? Is it
not the ‘I am’? As long as the ‘I am’ is there you
will perceive the space and world. If the ‘I am’
departs both will disappear.
181. Hammer it into yourself that the ‘I
am’ or ‘beingness’ is the parent of the
entire manifestation, then the ‘I am’
itself will help you stabilize in the ‘I
am’.
A process of reversion has to be undertaken in
order to understand and believe that the ‘I am’ or
‘beingness’ is the root of the entire manifestation.
Reversion means to go back to that moment when
you first came to know that ‘you are’; before this
did you know anything about the manifested world
that you see? It was non-existent for you. Quite
similarly, in deep sleep when the ‘I am’ is held in
abeyance the world is non-existent for you. As the
‘I am’ comes, so does this entire manifestation; as
the ‘I am’ goes, it’s all gone! As you understand
and become familiar with all this, the ‘I am’
befriends you and then it helps you get stabilized in
itself.