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

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117<br />

<strong>The</strong> Bhagavad-Gita says that we have five senses <strong>of</strong> knowledge;<br />

these are very subtle. More subtle than the senses is the mind,<br />

subtler than the mind is the intelligence, and subtler than these is<br />

the vital breath. And yet more subtle is ‘He’, the beingness, the ‘I<br />

am’.<br />

118<br />

You know you are sitting here. Be attentive to that knowledge<br />

only. Just be in your beingness. That knowingness ‘I am’ has<br />

created the entire universe. Hold on to that; nothing has to be done.<br />

Once you recognize that principle it becomes tranquil. Become one<br />

with that and all your needs will be satisfied.<br />

119<br />

I have been very open, very explicit. I’ve been telling you that you<br />

are not the body, you are that knowledge only and that vital breath<br />

is your conveyance, a tool by which you carry out your activities,<br />

and the knowledge ‘I am’ is very subtle. Because <strong>of</strong> your<br />

knowledge, you are and world is.<br />

120<br />

Don’t get involved in anything, stay in the consciousness ‘I am’<br />

and don’t go on a intellectual binge again. Consciousness indicates<br />

to the consciousness, expounds the knowledge; but you will not<br />

dwell there, you embrace the body. <strong>The</strong> knowledge ‘I am’ tells the<br />

knowledge about itself to the ‘I am’ only.

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