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

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Are we all here because <strong>of</strong> our volition to be born or has this<br />

knowingness appeared in us unknowingly? This beingness has<br />

come to you without your knowledge, but you are using it<br />

according to your own volition. I want to sentence that inviduality<br />

to death. Is it not justice that I pronounce this sentence? So think<br />

carefully. <strong>The</strong> individuality must go. ‘Parabrahman’ is purest<br />

justice and Truth.<br />

113<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are various types <strong>of</strong> charity, but the greatest charity is the<br />

renunciation <strong>of</strong> the knowledge ‘I am’. When you give that up you<br />

escape birth and death. Waking state represents activity; deep sleep<br />

represents peace, quiet. When these two are present it means ‘I am’<br />

is there, but you the Absolute are neither the waking state, deep<br />

sleep nor the ‘I amness’.<br />

114<br />

What else is there except the touch <strong>of</strong> ‘I am’? Why do you worry<br />

about discovering Maya and Brahma and all that? Understand what<br />

this principle ‘I am’ is and you are finished. That ‘I am’ is in<br />

bondage because <strong>of</strong> concepts.<br />

115<br />

I want to take you to that ‘I am’ concept which is the last outpost<br />

<strong>of</strong> illusion and get rid <strong>of</strong> it. Understand the quality <strong>of</strong> these<br />

concepts.<br />

116<br />

What capital is available to you? Only the ‘I am’, it is a product <strong>of</strong><br />

this five-elemental food essence. First you become the<br />

consciousness, and then you realize that you are the manifestation.

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