Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

you may not be aware of it. Now that it has been
pointed out to you by the Guru, come to the ‘I am’
and see how it has duped you into believing
something that you are not! You are not the ‘I am’
but much before it – the Absolute! Something that
you have always been and will always be, it has
just slipped your mind. Grasp this True Being and
forget about everything else.
53. You feel the ‘I am’ due to the five
elements and three qualities, when they
are gone, the ‘I am’ goes, but you are
still there.
This feeling that ‘you are’ or ‘I am’ is due to the
body-mind, which is a composite of the five
elements and the three qualities. The body, along
with the elements and the qualities, is perishable,
thus you can see that all these, the ‘I am’, the
elements and the qualities are interdependent and
destructible. Judging from this criteria how can all
these be real? The Truth or the real is never
dependent nor is it destructible and that is what
you are. The body, the elements and the qualities
may come and go but you are there forever
because you are none of these.