Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

am’ will befriend you and reveal its secret, and
then no external knowledge will be required.
121. Conviction is the only technique and
the Guru’s only initiation is: “you are
not the body but only the ‘I am’ without
words”.
The many people who have read a lot and moved
from Guru to Guru have found that ‘initiation’ and
‘technique’ are commonly transmitted from Guru
to their disciples. Expecting something quite
similar, they are taken aback when they come upon
a true Guru who says that conviction is the only
technique. And what is that conviction about? It is
that I am not the body, but only the knowledge ‘I
am’ without words, which he says is the only
initiation. This is something very basic, simple and
straightforward and the beauty of it is that it does
not conform to any conventional religion.
122. When you clearly see that it is the ‘I
am’ that is born, you stand apart from it
as the unborn.
The belief that you are born and will die one day is
embedded very strongly in you at present and
hence fear ever prevails. Following the Guru’s