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Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

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‘non-knowledge’ as it is not required anymore. The

dissolution of the ‘I am’ is the end of all experience

as well, as who is to experience what? The

knowledge ‘I am’ is the initiator of everything, in

its absence nothing is left.

90. The first witnessing is that of ‘I am’,

the primary prerequisite for all further

witnessing, but to whom is the first

witnessing of ‘I am’ occurring?

The first thing that you came to know was that ‘you

are’ or ‘I am’. It is the first thing that you are a

witness to, the primary and mandatory prerequisite

for all further witnessing to occur. Once this ‘I am’

takes hold of you it grows to gigantic proportions,

this expansion is so enormous that you lose

awareness of the ‘I am’ itself in the process and go

about your various activities. It is the ‘I am’ that is

witnessing the world, but who is witnessing the ‘I

am’? That’s the question to which you have to find

an answer and that is what all the ‘Sadhana’

(practice) is for.

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