Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

ingrained into you that it is very difficult to
disbelieve it.
44. Abide in the knowledge ‘I am’
without identifying with the body. How
did you function before the arrival of the
knowledge ‘I am’?
In order to understand this you will have to go
back again, apply your mind and just try to
recollect that moment when you came to know that
‘you are’. This occurred somewhere around the
age of three, but before that you were still
functioning without any problem from conception
to the arrival of ‘I am’. What about things prior to
conception? Have you ever given any thought to
that? You had no requirements whatsoever, even
after the arrival of the ‘I am’ in its nascent nonverbal
state there were no problems. During that
period of the word-free ‘I am’ you were not aware
of the body at all, that is where you have to come
back to and reside.
45. The state of being, which is the
message ‘I am’, without words, is
common to all, change begins only with
the mind-flow.