Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

49. Putting aside everything, stabilize in
the ‘I am’. As you continue with this
practice, in the process you will
transcend the ‘I am’.
Just throw aside everything that does not go with
the ‘I am’, get your self firmly established there.
Again and again, repeatedly and tirelessly you
have to continue with the practice of getting
stabilized in the ‘I am’. Then, at some moment,
when the God ‘I am’ is pleased with you, he will
release his stranglehold and you will transcend it
and become the Absolute.
50. The very core of this consciousness
is the quality ‘I am’, there is no
personality or individual there, reside
there and transcend it.
The feeling that ‘you are’ or ‘I am’ is the very core
of this consciousness and common to all. It is there
at the core in its absolute purity with no
appendages or add-ons, and in that state there is
no question of any individuality or personality. All
your efforts should be directed towards coming to
that pure state of ‘I am’ and reside there only. If
you do this with great sincerity and earnestness