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

you realize and stabilize, then even if you are silent people will fall
at your feet.
496
The ‘I am’ is the only God to be pleased. Whatever you presently
know about God is only bargaining. Your very existence or
beingness is the proof that God exists. If I am not, God is not.
God’s existence is due to the consciousness, the ‘I am’, please it
and it will lead you to its source.
497
Intelligence is innately there like fire in the match stick. The final
culmination of the elemental interplay is the human body, where
the touch of ‘I am’ appears. Birth is like a spark coming from the
rubbing of stones, there is the elemental friction and you have the
spark ‘I am’. The qualities of a Bodhisattva are due to the
knowledge ‘I am’, but that is temporary and so the perfect Jnani
says all manifestation is unreal, only ‘Parabrahman’ is real.
498
This body packet of the five elements gets conditioned into the ego
or individuality. When you transcend the body you dwell in the ‘I
am’ (in manifestation), at that stage you know that all is the five
elemental play. So long as the ‘I amness’ prevails or the ‘I am’ is
realized it is also realized that there is another Absolute principal
to which witnessing happens, and That Absolute principal is
beyond time.
499
The ‘I am’ is the centre or the essence of the food body, which is a
result of the five elements. Out of spacial activity there is water,