Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

is no question of any experience, thus you won’t
even know that you are.
70. The Absolute or the Parabrahman is
prior to the ‘I am’, it’s the unborn state,
so how can it have the knowledge ‘I
am’?
Your true, natural, Absolute or Parabrahman state
is before the knowledge ‘I am’ appeared. It is the
state that ever prevails and knows no birth or
death. Whatever is known or seen only appears to
have occurred on it using the knowledge ‘I am’ as
a basis for propagation, which is all an illusion.
But once the illusion is gone how can it have the
knowledge ‘I am’? It doesn’t even need this
knowledge as it is the unborn state. You must have
a firm conviction and come to the conclusion that
you are unborn.
71. At the moment all you know is the ‘I
am’, which is a product of the five
elements, three qualities or the food
body, but you are none of these.
The ‘I am’ emanates from the five elements and
three qualities that make up the body-mind which
can also be called the food body. It is food that