Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

191. My Guru taught me what ‘I am’, I
pondered only on that. My original state
is to be in that state where there is no ‘I
am’.
The Guru tells us how he realized his true nature
and from his own experience he imparts the same
teaching to us. We can see from this how important
the understanding of the ‘I am’ is, pondering over
it and then getting stabilized in it. This is the first
step towards realizing your original state, which is
prior to the ‘I am’. Only on getting firmly
stabilized in the ‘I am’ will you be able to
transcend it. Then you will be in the original
Absolute state which is devoid of the ‘I am’.
192. The ‘I am’ happened and the world
was cooked up. Prior to that you did not
have the message ‘I am’, you existed,
but you did not know.
The ‘I am’ is the beginning and the end of
everything, it was with the appearance of the ‘I
am’ that this whole manifestation came into being.
They are just two small words but see what havoc
they have cooked up in the form of this world. And
the way the ‘I am’ has done all this is indeed