Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

103. This knowingness ‘I am’ which
came spontaneously and you felt
gradually, is the ignorant-child-principle,
the ‘Balkrishna’ state.
The Guru now calls the ‘I am’, which
spontaneously appeared on you, the ignorant-child
principle or ‘Balkrishna’ state. This adds more to
your understanding of the ‘I am’. Indeed, when the
knowledge ‘I am’ dawned on you it was a state
complete ignorance. You did not know what this
sense of ‘being’ was and what to make of it. You
knew only two states, those of ‘I am’ and ‘I am
not’, which alternated on their own.
104. This ‘I am’ or Balkrishna state has
great potential. Here ‘Bal’ means the
child food body and ‘Krishna’ means
‘non-knowing’.
The Guru further goes on to explain this ignorantchild
principle or the Balkrishna state, which is
nothing else but the ‘I am’, as having great
potential. Why so? Because it is the primary
concept or illusion on which is constructed
everything else about you and your life. And, not
only you, but this ‘I am’ has created the entire
universe or cosmos. In its absence none of these