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

titles are ‘Parabrahman’, ‘Paramatman’ etc.; they are only pointers
to the state, but not the state itself. In the Ultimate they are
redundant, extraneous and bogus.
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The primary miracle is that I experience ‘I am’ and the world.
Prior to this experiencing, I abided in myself, in my eternal
Absolute state. Without my beingness – that is, without the
message ‘I am’ – my eternal Absolute state only prevails.
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The eternal Absolute state of mine prior to the beingness, when the
message ‘I am’ was not, is supremely significant. Who would have
witnessed the message ‘I am’, if my priormost state of the ‘nonbeingness’
was not?
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If one obtains and relishes the nectar of the Lord’s feet, the
‘charan-amrita’, the mind can be conquered. This is called
‘manojaya’ – victory over the mind. However, only a true devotee,
a ‘bhakta’, a god, can obtain the ‘charan-amrita’. But what is its
relationship with all beings? It dwells in the core of all beings as
the knowledge ‘I am’, the love ‘to be’, the ‘charan-amrita’.
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But how can such a state be attained? Only if one totally accepts
the knowledge ‘I am’ as oneself with full conviction and faith and
firmly believes in the dictum ‘I am that by which I know I am’.
This knowledge ‘I am’ is the ‘charan-amrita’. Why is it called
‘amrita’ – the nectar? Because it is said, by drinking nectar one
becomes immortal. Thus a true devotee, by abiding in the