Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

doing so you are giving it the highest honor due to
it. The benefits that you will get by this abidance in
the ‘I am’ are tremendous – you will not undergo
suffering or death. What more do you want?
94. Who says ‘I was not’ and ‘I will not
be’ like the present ‘I am’? It is the one
who was, is, and will be forever.
When you ponder on the question ‘What was I
before I was born?’, you realize that ‘I was not’, or
that ‘I was not as I am at present’. Then, as you
believe ‘you are’ at present, you also realize,
seeing people dying everyday that ‘I would not be
as I am at present’. So there are three things: ‘I
was not’, ‘I am’, and ‘I will not be’. Who knows
this? It is the unchangeable Absolute, the
Parabrahman, or the true Self who was, is, and
will be forever.
95. When you say ‘I was not prior to
conception’ you actually mean not like
the present ‘I am’, but the one that
discerns the absence of the present ‘I
am’ was there.
Again, when you ponder on the question ‘What was
I prior to conception?’, you at once realize that