Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

186. Go anywhere, but never forget that
the knowledge ‘I am’ is God. Day by
day through constant meditation this
conviction will grow.
You have spent some with the Guru, you have tried
to imbibe the teaching but you cannot stay with him
indefinitely. As you depart, you ask for something
to live by and he tells you, wherever you may go,
never to forget that the indwelling knowledge ‘I
am’ in you is God. Practice is essential, gradually
as your practice grows in intensity and duration a
day will come when you have the firm conviction
that the knowledge ‘I am’ is God indeed. Being
steeped in the ‘I am’ you stand a good chance of
transcending it.
187. Don’t bother about anything, just
continue abiding in the ‘I am’, a moment
will come when it will be pleased and
reveal all the secrets.
There will be periods of frustration; there will be
periods of doubt. Your worldly involvements would
hamper your ‘Sadhana’ (practice) and an
atmosphere of defeat would prevail. But, come
what may, just throw everything aside, don’t bother
about anything and continue your abidance in the