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

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201<br />

Increase the conviction that you are the formless consciousness.<br />

You develop your firm conviction that you are the total<br />

manifesting universal consciousness. <strong>The</strong>re is nobody who can<br />

have the knowledge <strong>of</strong> the Truth, the Eternal. It is one’s eternal<br />

true state, but is not a knowledgeable state – you cannot know It.<br />

So-called knowledge is boundless and plenty in the state <strong>of</strong><br />

attributes, ‘I am’. In this body is the knowledge ‘I am’. When the<br />

body drops down, the knowledge ‘I am’ will subside there only –<br />

what remains is the Absolute.<br />

202<br />

Be one with the knowledge ‘I am’, the source <strong>of</strong> sentience, the<br />

beingness itself. If you are seeking that peace which is priceless, it<br />

can only be in establishing yourself in the consciousness with<br />

steadfast conviction. By conviction I mean never doubted, firm,<br />

unshakable, never wavering – have that kind <strong>of</strong> conviction in your<br />

beingness. Think <strong>of</strong> nothing else; pray to nothing else, ‘Atma<br />

Prem’, because <strong>of</strong> it everything is.<br />

203<br />

In that body the ‘I am’ is ticking – that is the Guru. You worship<br />

that ‘I am’ principle and surrender to that Guru and that Guru will<br />

give all the grace. What you call ‘I am’ and birth, you are not that,<br />

it is material. <strong>The</strong> Ultimate knowledge does not have any<br />

knowledge. This knowledge ‘I am’ has appeared spontaneously, as<br />

a result <strong>of</strong> the body. See it as it is, understand it as it is.

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