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

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‘I am’ spontaneously appeared could it be concluded that the<br />

Absolute ‘was’ or ‘is’<br />

414<br />

With what identity do you judge me or judge yourself? You<br />

entertain the idea that you are going to have different births, I don’t<br />

believe in any such stories. I know ‘I’ never was, that ‘I amness’<br />

was never there for me. I am the unborn state.<br />

415<br />

<strong>The</strong> ‘I am’ is sustained by the food body, that is, our body, which<br />

is the food for the ‘I am’. Every creature depends on its food and<br />

the ‘I am’ depends upon our body. Will you remember this?<br />

416<br />

I have many photographs <strong>of</strong> my Guru here, because my Guru ‘is’ I<br />

know ‘I am’. You presume that your Guru is a body-mind and that<br />

is a mistake. I do not look upon my Guru like that. He is merged<br />

into Consciousness and I see him as that.<br />

417<br />

<strong>The</strong> ‘I am’ is there throughout his or her life even if a person lives<br />

for a hundred years, but the ‘I am’ disappears when the body is<br />

gone. This is called death.<br />

418<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is nothing for you to do, everything just comes into being<br />

and happens. Why are you concerned with what to do? You deal<br />

with the world only after having Consciousness, when the ‘I am’ is<br />

there. Once it is gone everything ends, it is all spontaneous.

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