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

266
You are the knowledge ‘I am’. So if you want to worship, worship
that knowledge ‘I am’. Be devoted to that ‘I amness’ only. When
you do that, other rituals become redundant and useless. Finally
when you realize that everything is useless, everything is
‘Brahman’, it means you are at the ‘Parabrahman’ level, the
absolute level. When at that level, you will envision everything as
useless, including the ‘Brahman’ because the ‘Brahman’ is also
reduced to illusion. Therefore all these talks, including my own
will be reduced to illusion when you reach the highest.
267
The one who abides in that principle by which he knows ‘I am’, he
is the manifest. He abides in that manifest ‘Brahman’ all the
twenty-four hours. Whether the body remains or not, that manifest
self-principle always remains. You must continually remember,
‘chew the cud’, that the knowledge ‘I am’ signifies knowing all
gods, all the ‘Vedas’, it is the ‘Brahman’ only. You must
continually think about it, and should in the course of such
reminiscing, the body drop off, then, that consciousness will
definitely be the highest.
268
You are sitting here: ‘you are’, prior to words. Now the hearsay
goes ‘I am’, ‘I am’ means the flow of the mind has started. Now
whatever you say with that ‘I amness’, through the mind about
‘you’, you have represented as yourself. But that is not so.