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

liquidated. Consciousness appears, is seen and then again is gone.
It is like air in the sky. The mistake happens because we consider
‘That’ Consciousness to be the individual consciousness.
444
‘I amness’ is without ego. The subsequent products are the mind
and the ego. The quality of ‘I amness’ or Beingness is intuition and
inspiration. Just like when you have seed and plant it, it must
sprout. Similarly the quality of Beingness must sprout.
445
The active part is called Maya, and is due to the mind. The inactive
part is called ‘I amness’ or Purusha, which is just watching. Only
when you identify with that which is stationary, the Purusha, can
you become the watcher of the ‘I amness’ and all of its activities.
446
Without this ‘I amness’ the Absolute does not know that ‘It is’.
Watching is not deliberate. Watching happens to the Absolute only
with the appearance of ‘I amness’. The ‘I amness’, like binoculars,
must be there and available for watching to happen.
447
Whatever activities happen, happen only because of your ‘I
amness’. They make no impression on the ‘I amness’. Judgements
like good or bad are aspects of the mind, but if you are one with
that ‘I amness’, then at that stage the mind is not there.