Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

The feeling ‘I am’ very clearly qualifies as the port
of entry or doorway through which you came into
this world and thus it also qualifies as the way out.
And there is no other way out! Stay at it and you
shall see that this door is always open, it was never
closed. Unless you go back and stay in the ‘I am’
for a sufficiently long time you won’t come to know
this fact.
13. You have to be there before you can
say ‘I am’, the ‘I am’ is the root of all
appearance.
There definitely was a substratum on which this
knowledge ‘I am’ arose, it was a wordless feeling.
It was only when you learnt a language that you
could say ‘I am’. Along with the wordless ‘I am’
also came space and the world, so the ‘I am’ is at
the root of whatever you perceive.
14. The ‘I am’ is the permanent link in
the succession of events called life, be at
the link ‘I am’ only and go beyond it.
Conception, birth and infancy, these are the
beginnings of your being where the ‘I am’ lies
dormant. Then there is the spontaneous
appearance of the non-verbal feeling ‘I am’ around