Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

212. Beware of the ‘I am’ growing over
your true nature and giving you the false
feeling of being the doer.
The path is indeed slippery, even for the most
advanced seeker. After understanding and getting
stabilized in the ‘I am’ without words, you may
start getting glimpses of your true nature - here the
Guru warns you to be very alert. Why so? Because
the ‘I am’ is indeed difficult to do away with. Quite
swiftly and quietly it may grow again over your
true nature and trap you, and soon you will start
believing that you are doer. This will bring you
back to square one and undo all the progress that
you had achieved.
213. When the ‘I am’ becomes pure - that
is, without ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’ -
you become ‘Ishwara’ (God).
You have to come back to the ‘I am’ when it first
appeared on you and the brief period that followed
afterwards when the ‘I am’ was uncontaminated.
During that period the ‘I am’ had no add-ons, like
‘this’ or ‘that’, it was a phase when it was pure.
You have gone through that period in your life and
there is no reason why you cannot relive it. It is all
a question of understanding the ‘I am’, applying