Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

yourself and abiding in it. If you do so you become
‘Ishwara’ (God) and stand a chance of
transcending it and becoming ‘Parameshwar’ (the
ultimate God or the Absolute).
214. The feeling ‘I am’ comes to you only
because there is something older or
earlier in you to which this ‘I am’
appears.
Ponder over a question like: To whom does the
feeling ‘I am’ come? Or, what was I prior to the
arrival of the knowledge ‘I am’? When you do so,
you will realize that there has to be something
older or something before on which this ‘I am’
appears. The more time you spend in the ‘I am’
without words, the stronger the conviction will
grow about this ‘something’ that is prior to the ‘I
am’. Finally, that ‘something’ becomes your goal,
something to and to focus on, for that is your true
Absolute nature.
215. The interval between the beginning
of ‘I am’ (birth or waking) and when you
lose it again (death or deep sleep) is
called ‘time’.