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

311
Paths and movements cannot transport you into Reality, because
their function is to enmesh you within the dimensions of
knowledge, while the Reality prevails prior to it. To apprehend
this, you must stay put at the source of your creation, at the
beginning of the knowledge ‘I am’. So long as you do not achieve
this, you will be entangled in the chains forged by your mind and
get enmeshed in those of others.
312
This true knowledge, the knowledge ‘I am’, is also rendered the
status of ‘non-knowledge’ in the final Absolute state. When one is
established in this final free state, the knowledge ‘I am’ becomes
‘non-knowledge’.
313
For all beings it is the same experience. Early morning,
immediately after waking, just the feeling ‘I am’ is felt inside or
the beingness happens, and therefore further witnessing of all else
happens. The first witnessing is that of ‘I am’, this primary
witnessing is the prerequisite for all further witnessing. But to
whom is the witnessing occurring? One that ever is, even without
waking, to that ever-present substratum the witnessing of the
waking state happens.
314
At present, ‘I am’ is in the beingness state. But, when I do not have
the knowingness of the ‘I am’ illusion, then the ‘Poornabrahman’
or ‘Parabrahman’ state prevails. In the absence of the touch of ‘I
amness’ I am the total complete, ‘Poornabrahman’ state, the