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Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

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65. This is no joke, you can become

Parabrahman right now! You are

Parabrahman right now! Just focus your

attention on the ‘I am’.

The concept of being born as an individual with a

body and mind has been so strongly hammered into

you that you simply refuse to accept anything that

challenges it. In such a state of being, the truth that

you are the Absolute ‘Parabrahman’ in this very

moment may sound too far-fetched, or like a joke.

You can even become it right now by simply

focusing your attention on the ‘I am’. The moment

you do so you stand apart from the ‘I am’ as a

witness to it. Now, who is this witness?

66. Who has the knowledge ‘I am’?

Somebody in you knows the knowledge

‘I am’, ‘you are’. Who is it?

As you stay focused on the ‘I am,’ the question

“Who is watching the ‘I am’?” will occur to you.

There has to be something in you that knows the ‘I

am’ or that ‘you are’. How come ‘you were not’

and now ‘you are’? This transition from ‘I am not’

to ‘I am’, how did it occur? Was there any volition

in it or did it occur spontaneously? Who is it that

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