Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

199. The ‘I am’ is the only God to please
and if pleased, it will lead you to the
source.
Conventionally and externally there are many
Gods available, you may go from God to God and
get lost and confused. But the ‘I am’ is internal and
universally present in all; moreover it is devoid of
any name or form. If you have to worship at all
costs, worship the ‘I am’, it is the only God to
please. If you befriend the ‘I am’ and it becomes
pleased, it will lead you to the source by releasing
you from its (‘I am’) clutches.
200. A ‘Jnani’ is one who has come to a
conclusion about the raw material ‘I am’
and stands apart from it.
Who is a ‘Jnani’ (a man of wisdom)? A ‘Jnani’ is
he who has not only understood and developed a
firm conviction about the knowledge ‘I am’, but
has also transcended it. He (the ‘Jnani’) managed
to achieve this through the ‘Sadhana’ (practice) of
meditating on the ‘I am’ for a reasonable amount
of time and in the process went beyond and stood
apart from it. Having done so, he is out of the
cycles of birth and death.