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

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‘I am’. <strong>The</strong> very core <strong>of</strong> all atoms is permeated by that knowledge<br />

‘I am’. Embrace all the atoms <strong>of</strong> the universe with the feeling that<br />

all <strong>of</strong> them have come inside us in the form <strong>of</strong> the knowledge ‘I<br />

am’.<br />

104<br />

You are so used to support <strong>of</strong> concepts that when your concepts<br />

leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try<br />

to cling to them again. This is the meeting point <strong>of</strong> that immanent<br />

principle and the Eternal, the borderland. Why is the intellect<br />

puzzled here? That beingness which you are experiencing is<br />

melting away. When the concept <strong>of</strong> ‘I am’ goes, intellect also goes.<br />

So the intellect gets that frightening experience <strong>of</strong> ‘I am going’.<br />

105<br />

When you become one with that knowledge you will realize that<br />

the knowledge ‘I am’ is the very Guru <strong>of</strong> the universe. Don’t make<br />

use <strong>of</strong> anything except the knowledge ‘I am’. Forget everything<br />

else. Consider a magnificent tree with many branches and leaves.<br />

Go to the root and not the branches.<br />

106<br />

<strong>The</strong> ‘I am’ connotes the three states, waking, dream and deep<br />

sleep. ‘I am’ means that you are these three states, when these are<br />

gone the memory is also gone.<br />

107<br />

<strong>The</strong> appearance <strong>of</strong> the primary concept ‘I am’ is the beginning <strong>of</strong><br />

duality. I started counting with myself, before this counting starts.<br />

That has no number. That is the Absolute. With that little<br />

movement ‘I am’ this counting started.

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