Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

in it, then it will disappear and you will be in your
true natural state.
78. On the state of non-beingness,
beingness as the ‘I am’ has occurred,
who that is, is not important, the ‘I am’
is important, stay there.
You were never born. This knowledge ‘I am’ has
quite spontaneously occurred on your unborn state
without any reason, just like a dream
spontaneously occurring with no reason and
volition at all. The so-called person or whoever has
come to be is of no importance: it is the feeling ‘I
am’, which in its wordless nascent state is
important, you have to reside there.
79. First came the ‘aham’ as ‘I am’, then
‘aham-akar’ (identification with body,
ego), now go back to ‘aham’, dwelling
there realize ‘aham-brahmasmi’
The feeling ‘I am’ or ‘Aham’ was the first to
appear and then it identified with the body and
became ‘I am so-and-so’ or ‘Ahamkar’ (Aham= I
am+Akar=this shape or form or body=Ahamkar
meaning the Ego). Now leave aside the shape or
body or ‘Akar’, revert to and stabilize in the