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

which is the center of the cosmos; don’t let your attention stray in
any way from the knowledge of beingness, ‘I am’. Keep on
knowing that ‘I am’ and through this insistence you will know the
state you want to reach.
100
Before this knowledge ‘I am’ appeared on you, you were
absolutely unattached. As soon as this knowledge dawned on you,
you became attached to everything around you. Only that false ‘I’
is attached. Everything is just happening and that false ‘I’ is taking
the credit for doing things.
101
All this conceptual cycle is created by you because you have the
concept ‘I am’, which you must eradicate yourself. When you are
in deep sleep is there any experience of pleasure and pain or birth
and death? What does that mean? It means that the concept ‘I am’
has vanished.
102
You must meditate on that ‘I am’ without holding on to the body
and mind. As you nursed at your mother’s breast when you were a
baby, so must you nurse at this ‘I am’, the knowledge of your
beingness. Remember and meditate on this also ‘I have no fear, I
am beyond fear’. I am telling you that this fear will gradually
lessen and will go completely, because I say so. The medicine for
that fear is my word.
103
The Absolute state does not know itself, but the Absolute is offered
and opportunity to understand itself through the food product, the