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

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539<br />

Consciousness in its purity is ‘Turiya’ (pure ‘I am’ or the fourth<br />

state), but I am beyond it and living in (as) the ‘Turiyatita’ (Reality<br />

or the Absolute).<br />

540<br />

Repetition <strong>of</strong> ‘Mantra’ takes one to the pure ‘I am’ state or ‘Sattva<br />

Guna’ and from there one merges into the source <strong>of</strong> all bliss, and<br />

then, all knowledge that you possess is laid down or surrendered<br />

and you merge with the Absolute beyond all name and form.<br />

541<br />

Go to the ‘I am’ level and dwell there. Because you at the body<br />

level revel in all these objective things, but if you were to go to the<br />

‘I am’ and firmly abide in that, then all these external things will<br />

lose grip on you.<br />

542<br />

‘<strong>The</strong>re is nobody else but me or my consciousness’, this is<br />

‘Advaita-Bhakti’ (Non-dual devotion) – ‘I am’. This is the highest<br />

devotion – to vanish and be lost or submerged in this vast<br />

unknown.<br />

543<br />

<strong>The</strong> Awareness <strong>of</strong> Pure Existence got the feeling ‘I am’, and from<br />

this seed this entire world or universe was born.

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