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

215
As long as you are wearing this concept ‘I am’ you will be
involved with all the concepts. When this concept ‘I am’ departs
there will be no memory left that ‘I was’ and ‘I had’ those
experiences; the very memory will be erased.
216
All this process of communication, expounding, etc., will go on so
long as this conscious presence is available, and all this is to
merely satisfy the concept ‘I am’, and you the Absolute, are not the
primary concept ‘I am’.
217
That which you like most – is the ‘I am’, the conscious presence –
but that is not going to last forever. When the body drops off and
the consciousness is extinguished, you need to do nothing. With
this understanding do what you like in the world.
218
The only spiritual way to understanding you true nature is to find
out the source of this concept ‘I am’. Before the sense of presence
arrived I was in that state in which the concept of time was never
there. So what is born? It is the concept of time, and that event
which is birth, living, and death together constitute nothing but
time, duration.
219
When you are the space you are no more the body, but whatever is
contained in that space you are. You are now manifest – whatever
is known – the space. This space is known as ‘chidakash’. In