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

466
Worship the beingness, which is nothing but suffering. Worship
misery and it will become less and less. It will also help you to get
rid of misery; this ‘I am’ is itself misery, make any use of it as you
like. If you like you may take it as Prarabdha (Destiny).
467
There is no difference in the types of ‘I amness’, I experience
fatigue now, good health earlier, but the common factor is
beingness which has not changed. All is illusion, the ‘I am’ is
knowledge, but it’s also an illusion, say what you like, nothing
prevails, except the knowledge ‘you are’. You presume that the
world has existed without your beingness; your world is with your
arrival, not prior to it, if you are not, your world is not.
468
The talk about myself is the talk about yourself. Let any worthy
one reach to any heights, anywhere, but it is time-bound. Any
height! It is just a passage of time. Time means the Sun – the world
is because of it – beingness. The sum total means ‘you are’,
beingness only, when the knowledge ‘I am’ sets, the world is
liquidated, Nivritti – no message ‘I am’.
469
But I have already told you, you are Ishwara. You have to have the
conviction that ‘I am That’, a mental determination. With the
appearance of the knowledge ‘I am’, appears the space and the four
other elements, your beingness gives rise to them, first beingness,
then others When you identify with it and stabilize in the
beingness, you are not even that. In the knowledge of the Jnani (or