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

245
You are afraid because you have assumed something as ‘I am’,
which actually you are not. Suppose you find a diamond ring on
the road and you pocket it. Since it is not yours, a fear overcomes
you. When you put on an identity that is not yours, you are afraid,
but when you are the pure ‘I amness’ only, there is no fear.
Presently you are this ‘I am’, but this ‘I am’ is not the truth.
Whatever you are prior to the appearance of the ‘I am’, that is your
real nature.
246
Don’t roam about, don’t come here either. Abide in the quietude,
peace, stability. Here we are not engaged in any buying or selling.
That knowledge ‘I am’, without concepts, is evoked or stimulated
by the consciousness and peace which emanate from this place.
247
You did not have the concept ‘I am’ in the course of the nine
months in the womb. Understanding this state of affairs, the
concept ‘I am’ comes spontaneously and goes spontaneously.
Amazingly, when it appears, it is accepted as real. All subsequent
misconceptions arise from the feeling of reality in the ‘I amness’.
Try to stabilize in the primary concept ‘I am’, in order to lose that
and with it all other concepts. Why am I totally free? Because I
have understood the unreality of that ‘I am’.
248
If you sit here quietly, being one with the knowledge ‘I am’, then
you are not concerned with the world or what goes on in the world.
It is only when the consciousness starts operating and there are