Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

exist. ‘Bal’ means the child food body, which also
implies strength or power and ‘Krishna’ means
‘non-knowing’, which implies not knowing its own
strength. This Balkrishna is very powerful and its
potential for creation is enormous, just like the
small seed that is quite unaware of its potential for
creating a large banyan tree.
105. To do away with body-mind sense or
identity, imbibe or dwell in the ‘I am’.
Later the ‘I am’ will merge into the
ultimate nature.
When the ‘I am’ dawned on you, in its very early
stages it did not identify with the body. You will
have to apply your mind, go back, and try to
recollect that phase when only the pure ‘I am’
existed with no adjuncts. It is much later and very
gradually that the ‘I am’ starts identifying with the
body initially, and mind also, together with time.
All this occurs with you yourself being quite
unaware of it; parents, teachers, friends, relatives
and surroundings contribute to the process and
strengthen the verbal ‘I am’- resulting in a well
developed, so-called ‘personality’. If you are lucky
enough, at some stage of your life, you will come
across the right Guru who will point out the fallacy
of this mistaken identity. He now explains this