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

288
How can you retain the pride that I am like this? This ‘I am’
business depends entirely on the food essence. So how can you
retain it perpetually – that I shall remain like this only? To extract
any essence, water is very necessary, and the water quality is
bound to dry up.
289
The knowledge ‘I am’ is a primary concept, and is also noneternal.
The One, the Absolute, which is eternal and aware, why
should he worry about anybody else?
290
Once you reject what you are not, whatever finally remains, the
leftover, is yourself – your true nature. Presently, whatever you
know is ‘I am’, this ‘I am’ is the product of the five elements. Out
of the elements comes the food body and because of the food body,
that ‘I amness’ is sustained. And you are also not that ‘I am’. ‘I
am’ is the taste, the fragrance of this food body. The ultimate ‘you’
has no fragrance, no taste, no touch of ‘I amness’.
291
The scriptures say that we have our ‘karma’ and our sin and that is
why we are here, but this is for the ignorant masses. One who has
realized the self-knowledge ‘I am’ for him these stories are of no
use.
292
The primary illusion is only this knowingness ‘I am’, prior to that
there was no illusion. This very consciousness is the source of