Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

124. The absence of ‘I am’ is not
experienced by ‘someone’; it has to be
understood in such a manner that the
experiencer and the experience are one.
You are so deeply rooted in duality that you always
feel that there must be ‘someone’ who will
experience nothingness, the void, space or the
absence of ‘I am’. It is impossible for the mind to
conceive of a state of non-duality because it can
function only in a dual or subject-object mode.
Thus, obviously, the mind has to stop or you have
to transcend the mind, and for that to happen you
have to come to the ‘I am’, which is the point from
where the mind begins. When you abide in the ‘I
am’, a moment comes when it disappears and then
the experiencer and the experience merge and what
remains is your true natural state, beyond words or
description.
125. The knowledge ‘I am’, which
appeared in childhood, is a cheat as it
has made you believe the illusion is true.
See how this knowledge ‘I am’ is a friend and foe
as well. As a friend it can show you the way out,
but, as a foe, it has tricked you into believing you
are a body. It has conned you into imagining you