Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

are a person born in this world, and that one day
you will die. This Janus-like nature of the ‘I am’
has to be understood, it is the lord of the gates with
two opposing faces.
126. This knowledge ‘I am’ has dawned
on you, thereafter witnessing began.
That ‘One’ who witnesses is separate
from what is witnessed.
This knowledge ‘I am’ has come uncalled, it has
appeared or dawned on you without your asking
for it. It came very spontaneously and swiftly, and
before even you could do anything the witnessing
of space began. The ‘I am’ and space came
together, you ‘saw’ and felt the body and started
identifying the ‘I am’ with it. In the process of
going back you ponder on the question ‘who is
witnessing?’ or ‘On whom did this ‘I am’ appear?’
Then you realize that the ‘One’ who witnesses has
to stand apart from what is witnessed, and that this
‘One’ has been forever there.
127. Meditation is this knowledge ‘I am’,
this consciousness meditating on itself
and unfolding its own meaning.