The complete 'I am' quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Pradeep Apte

knowledge ‘I am’ with the body. Together with the body and the
indwelling ‘I amness’ everything is. Prior to the appearance of this
body and the knowledge ‘I am’, what was there?
370
The feeling ‘I am’ is the quintessence of everything, but I the
Absolute am not that. That ‘I amness’ is the highest knowledge.
And this is surrendered here by the abidance in the action.
371
So long as the concept ‘I am’ is still there, they (people who
contact maharaj) have not gone beyond or prior to it; they have not
gone beyond the total manifestation. So now when people come
here, I talk with them, from what level am I talking? I am talking
from the level that you are consciousness and not the body-mind.
In my state whatever comes out is from the total manifestation, not
from the point of view of the Absolute. Hang on to that
consciousness, which is your only capital, and do ‘dhyana’ and let
that unfold whatever knowledge has to be unfolded.
372
At present you wrongly identify yourself as the body. Body is
given a certain name; that is ‘you’; you consider it to be like that.
But I say that in this body, consciousness is present, or the
knowledge ‘I am’ as I call it, is there. You should identify yourself
as this knowledge. That is all.
373
For meditation you should sit with identification with the
knowledge ‘I am’ only and have confirmed to yourself that you are
not the body. You must dwell only in that knowledge ‘I am’ – not