Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

came about on you and it will not only lead you to,
but also get you stabilized in the Absolute.
27. All knowledge including the ‘I am’
is formless, throw out the ‘I am’ and stay
put in quietude.
The root of all knowledge is the ‘I am’, it’s the
starting point and it is formless, hence all
knowledge is formless. By repeated efforts go back
to this knowledge ‘I am’, catch hold of it and throw
it out. The ‘I am’ is slippery and will evade your
efforts, but persist and stabilize in the silence and
stillness that prevails on its departure.
28. Prior to birth where was the ‘I am’?
Don’t contaminate the ‘I am’ with the
body idea, I as the Absolute am not the
‘I am’.
What were you before you were born? Where was
the ‘I am’? You were ‘Nothing’ and there was no ‘I
am’. On this Nothingness of yours has the ‘I am’
appeared and it has got contaminated with the
body idea. Now, through discrimination you need
to undertake a decontamination procedure, free the
‘I am’ of the body idea, abide in it and transcend it,
because you as the Absolute are not the ‘I am’.