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

world, uncalled for, has appeared and you observe it, similarly this
world, uncalled for, has appeared and you are compelled to
observe it. Just observe. Spontaneously, unknowingly, your
beingness has appeared. Knowingly you don’t know ‘Now I am
going to be’; only after the formation of ‘I amness’ do you know ‘I
am’.
131
The knowledge ‘I am’ is the film, the destiny. Finally what is our
destiny? It is that birth chemical, that film in which everything is
recorded and everything is happening. Where are ‘you’ in this?
132
What do you mean by study? That means you are only trying to
remember the concepts. What I am saying is that you become
concept-free. Put an ax to the concepts, including the concept ‘I
am’.
133
This knowledge ‘I am’ has appeared out of love and that love
comes out of existence. When this knowledge has dawned on the
Self it is absolutely happy but after the child is two or three years
old, gradually it gets involved in ‘I’ and ‘mine’, and gradually he
loses hold of the joy ‘I am’. The result of this involvement is that
he comes to the conclusion that he was born and is going to die.
134
There is no separate God to propitiate and get things done
according to our will. Without doing anything you have the
knowledge ‘I am’. Immense courage, heroism and conviction that
‘you are’ – that is ‘Ishwara, that is you. I am giving you