Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

are’ or the ‘I am’ appeared on you. Now just wait
here…prior to this what were you? Go back
further…prior to conception what or where you
were. Nothing! That’s it! You were the highest, the
Absolute or the Parabrahman. It’s only this total
absence that doesn’t require anything, is formless,
free and above all. On this stateless state appeared
the ‘I am’ and it caught hold of the body and
believed ‘I am the body’. This very idea is an
impurity, do away with it and abide in the stillness
and silence of the pure ‘I am’ without words, only
then do you stand a chance of reaching your true
identity.
64. Your fall started with the appearance
of ‘I am’, then you blundered by
embracing the body as ‘I am’, all that
gathered thereafter is unreal.
The very appearance of ‘I am’ was the first
deception, more deception followed when the ‘I
am’ embraced the body. This is the deceptive
foundation which caused you to blunder and build
upon it this mansion of your individuality. Your
very base, the ‘I am’, is false or unreal, so how can
anything that followed thereafter be real? Just see
how you have been tricked into believing
something that is totally unreal.