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

91
That state in which you were before you acquired this knowledge
‘I am’ is the real state. Only after you got this knowledge you
identified with the body-mind. Whatever you have acquired,
including the body-mind, that will go, and it is useless, and that is
that. But your original state, before you acquired the body, is the
Truth, is the Real state, and it will remain.
92
The beginning and the end of this understanding is the knowledge
‘I am’. The beginning of concepts started with the primary concept
‘I am’. Having wandered through all the concepts, and rejected
them, you have to get rid of this last or the first concept.
93
To start with you have to be in that beingness or ‘I am’ without the
body sense. You feel that you are the body now but when you
abide in that beingness you will know then how you are without
the body sense. But don’t forget, at the same time; that body and
the vital breath are very necessary. Once you understand these
three entities correctly (body, vital breath and the message ‘I am’),
then you are apart.
94
This knowledge ‘I am’ comes to you after your body is born, after
that the body of childhood grows on its own and becomes old.
What remains in the end is only one thing ‘I am’. So all through
life you have to remember to investigate who is this ‘I am’.
Otherwise birth and death will have no meaning for your
beingness, because that beingness will also be dissolved after the
death of the body.