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

understood the ‘I am’, I transcend it and came to the conclusion
that all the three entities are unreal, and then what more remains to
be liquidated? The ‘Parabrahman’ is without attributes and I am
‘Parabrahman’, I am not the beingness, the world nor Brahman
493
Manifested Brahma is the ‘I am’, whatever principle is prior to the
utterance of sound, that principle proclaims by itself. What I insists
is that you must stabilize is that state. The recitation of the mantra
‘So Hum’ must be for a very long time, it is prior to words. When
that ‘So Hum’ principle, is pleased, that principle, represented by
these words, expounds knowledge.
494
The ‘So Hum’ Japa is incessantly going on in your pulse,
indicating ‘I am’ get in tune with it by recitation. That ‘So Hum’
energy without words is the raw material of incarnations and the
incarnations are the hoardings of the primary principle. The
primordial principle is ‘Parabrahman’; its advertisement is done by
movement, the stirrings of ‘So Hum’. By its movement it is
praising the primordial principle, that advertising material is the
‘Moolmaya’ (Primary Illusion). That incarnating principle – the
‘Moolmaya’– gives knowledge to the incarnated.
495
What is your core state? In that true accomplished state, there is no
scope for even space, let alone the words. In the process of
understanding my Guru’s words as to how ‘I am’ I realized ‘I am
not’. In that state there is no unstruck sound either. In the process
of Neti,Neti (Not this, not this) it happens, in the state of ‘I
amness’ finally everything disappears and you get stabilized. If