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

318
How does one recognize this ‘atman’? It is by understanding the
knowledge ‘I am’ – the ‘atma-jnana’. Just as space is allpervading,
so the knowledge ‘I am’ is all-pervading, limitless and
infinite. How strange, such a supreme principle is treated as though
it is a body! All the sufferings are due to this mistaken identity. If
you give the highest honor due to it, you will not undergo either
suffering or death.
319
To abide in the knowledge ‘I am’ is one’s true religion – the
‘svadharma’. But instead of following it, you opted to be
irreligious by submitting to the dictates of your concepts, which
led you to believe that you are a body. This misconception ensured
only the fear of death.
320
The fragrance or sweetness of the food-essence body is the
knowledge ‘I am’. It has no name and form; it is the ‘I love’ state,
the ‘I-taste’. But from your body-mind state, you will go to
pilgrimages and various gurus. So long as the consciousness is
there, that humming goes on, and who does the humming? The
principle which is humming and saying, ‘I am, I am’ is itself your
guru.
321
‘Jnana-yoga’ means to inquire how this ‘I amness’ and the world
came about. To realize that ‘I amness’ and the world are the same
is ‘jnana-yoga’. Here the knowledge ‘I am’ should subside in itself.