The complete 'I am' quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Pradeep Apte
The complete 'I am' quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Pradeep Apte
The complete 'I am' quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Pradeep Apte
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223<br />
<strong>The</strong> emergence <strong>of</strong> this beingness itself constitutes time. Everything<br />
is beingness, but I, the Absolute, am not that. In meditation there<br />
was space, when suddenly two forms appeared out <strong>of</strong> no-form,<br />
‘Prakriti’ and ‘Purusha’ and the quintessence <strong>of</strong> these forms was<br />
the knowledge ‘I am’.<br />
224<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are no individuals; there are only food bodies with the<br />
knowledge ‘I am’. <strong>The</strong>re is no difference between and ant, human<br />
being and ‘Iswara’ they are <strong>of</strong> the same quality. <strong>The</strong> body <strong>of</strong> an ant<br />
is small; an elephant’s is large. <strong>The</strong> strength is different, because <strong>of</strong><br />
size, but the life-force is the same. For knowledge the body is<br />
necessary.<br />
225<br />
When this beingness goes, the Absolute will not know ‘I am’.<br />
Appearance and disappearance, birth and death, these are qualities<br />
<strong>of</strong> beingness; they are not your qualities.<br />
226<br />
Who is talking? Who is walking? Who is sitting? <strong>The</strong>se are the<br />
expressions <strong>of</strong> the chemical ‘I am’. Are you that chemical? You<br />
talk about heaven and hell, this Mahatma or that one, but how<br />
about you? Who are you? You are not this chemical ‘I am’.<br />
227<br />
Not an individual but the knowledge ‘I am’ must go to its source.<br />
Out <strong>of</strong> the no-being comes the beingness. It comes as quietly as<br />
twilight; just a feel <strong>of</strong> ‘I am’ and then suddenly the space is there.
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