Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

transcendence is the key to the whole ‘Sadhana’
(practice).
31. Remember the knowledge ‘I am’
only and give up the rest, staying in the
‘I am’ you will realize that it is unreal.
Whatever has added-on to the basic and
fundamental knowledge ‘I am’ has destroyed its
purity. Drop aside everything added-on and only
remember the ‘I am’ in all its purity. You have to
really get after it and for that you have to reside in
it, dwell on it at all times. In the process you will
realize that the ‘I am’ is dependent and
destructible and hence unreal, for the real is
independent and indestructible.
32. Understand that the knowledge ‘I
am’ has dawned on you and all are its
manifestations, in this understanding you
realize you are not the ‘I am’.
Has this knowledge ‘I am’ come willingly to you?
Was it volitional? In retrospect it doesn’t appear to
be so. There was that moment and you knew that
‘you are’ and thenceforth the feeling ‘I am’ went
on getting strengthened. ‘I am so and so’ got
embedded into you and the rest of the activities of