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

74
The subtle body is created with the emergence of the ‘I am’ idea.
The two are one. It is momentary. Real when present, unreal when
over. Call it empirical, or actual, or factual. It is the reality of
immediate experience, here and now, which cannot be denied.
You can question the description and the meaning, but not the
event itself. Being and non-being alternate and their reality is
momentary. The immutable reality lies beyond space and time.
Realize the momentariness of being and non-being and be free
from both.
75
The ‘I am’ is at the root of all appearance and the permanent link
in the succession of events that we call life; but I am beyond the ‘I
am’.
76
All the glories will come with mere dwelling on the feeling ‘I am’.
It is the simple that is certain, not the complicated. Somehow,
people do not trust the simple, the easy, the always available. Why
not give an honest trial to what I say? It may look very small and
insignificant, but it is like a seed that grows into a mighty tree.
Give yourself a chance.
77
I was taught to give attention to my sense of ‘I am’ and I found it
supremely effective. Therefore, I can speak of it with full
confidence. But often people come with bodies, brains and minds
so mishandled, perverted and weak that the state of formless
attention is beyond them. In such cases some simpler token of
earnestness (like repeating a ‘mantra’) is appropriate. After all it is