Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

your life followed. From this, is it not conclusive
that the ‘I am’ has created your world and not the
other way around? This ‘I am’ has dawned on you
and you stand apart from it just as a witness with
no participation in any of its activities whatsoever.
33. When this concept ‘I am’ departs
there will be no memory left that ‘I was’
and ‘I had’ those experiences, the very
memory will be erased.
The knowledge ‘I am’ is the very seed of memory
and all information functions through it, it forms
the basis of the mind. It is bound to tire out and
hence there is sleep, otherwise you would die if you
didn’t sleep. But sleep is not the complete
departure of the ‘I am’ it’s only held in abeyance
and after sleep it gets refreshed and starts its
activity again maintaining the continuity. No
wonder if your name is called aloud in sleep you
wake up and respond saying ‘that’s me’! Physical
death is the total departure of the ‘I am’ and
nothing is retained. For the ‘Realized One’ who
has transcended the ‘I am’, memory and the ‘I am’
are available to him, he may or may not use them,
they are not ‘lodged’ in him anymore. Only the
‘Realized One’ can understand this state.