Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

88. Reality prevails prior to the
knowledge ‘I am’; you must stay put at
the source of your creation, at the
beginning of the knowledge ‘I am’.
Reality ever prevails; it knows no coming and
going, birth and death, creation and destruction -
these are attributes of the ‘I am’. On the
attributeless Reality or the Absolute the ‘I am’ has
appeared and one day will disappear. At present
you have wandered away from the ‘I am’, come
back to it again and again and try to abide there
for some time. The ‘I am’ is the very beginning, the
source of everything, and in its wordless state is in
the closest proximity to the Reality. By residing in
the ‘I am’ you stand a better chance of arriving at
your natural state than from anywhere else.
89. When one is established in the final,
free Absolute state, the knowledge ‘I
am’ becomes ‘non-knowledge’.
The Absolute state is the ultimate state, or you can
say that it is the stateless state. After the
disappearance of the ‘I am’, which was the
primary and root concept, there is no content
anymore. The ‘I am’ having departed, there is no
duality anymore, the knowledge ‘I am’ becomes