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

vegetation and so forth, so ‘I amness’ is a culmination of the five
elemental activity. This ‘I amness’, whenever enjoyed beyond the
body is your destiny. When you dwell in destiny as ‘I am’, you
realize that it is not your death, but the disappearance of ‘I
amness.’ You just dwell in it, and itself it will tell you its own
story.
500
Who is a Jnani? A Jnani is one who has come to a conclusion
about the raw material of the ‘I am’ and that he stands apart from
it. You presume that you have a lot of knowledge, yet you have not
been able to get rid of your identity, but even if you keep in mind
just two words (‘I am’), your job is done.
501
You reduce your identification with the body, in that process the
knowledge ‘I am’ which knows itself, will be clear. If you embrace
the body sense, there will be a lot of questions. If the knowledge
‘you are’ is not there, will anybody keep this body? The principle
that rejects or gives up the body is your Self.
502
What do you mean by ‘I am’ or the feeling of ‘you are’? All the
names relate to the ‘I amness’, Atman also is its name. If there is
no ‘I amness’, whose names can these all be? You cannot say this
and that consciousness, your consciousness is your world only. To
fully understand and realize all this, do meditation. That sound, the
humming ‘I am’, is the Ishwara sound. It is a reminder that, you
are God, but your reject the soundless sound by identifying with
the body. On your own authority, in absence of the ‘I am’
principle, what can you do?