Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

That stage when the message ‘I am’ had just
arrived and was word-free is common to all.
Everybody goes through this period, the non-verbal
state, only knowing that ‘you are’ or ‘I am’. In this
stage there only exists the opposite ‘you are not’ or
‘I am not’. Your movements from ‘I am’ to ‘I am
not’ or vice-versa occur quite spontaneously with
no volition at all. Changes begin as soon you are
taught words or language and very soon the
concepts take over, your verbal life or the mindflow
begins. Along with these come the three states
of being awake, dreaming or deep sleep and you
believe that you are an individual with a body and
mind functioning in this world. Now, you meet the
Guru and he tells you to rediscover this long lost
wordless, nascent ‘I am’. It is still there and you
have to relive it – that is the ‘Sadhana’ (the
Practice).
46. The belief in the ‘I am’ as a body, as
an individual is the cause of all fear, in
the absence of the ‘I am’, who is to fear
what?
This belief that ‘I am so-and-so’ with a mind and
body, an individual living in this world and society
is the cause of all fear. Fears are many and
diverse, there is fear of death, loss of wealth, loss