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

something which is part of manifestation, but I am trying to hit at
it.
344
This ‘I am’ is an announcement, it is not the real, it has come out
of something else. What the real is, I am not trying to tell you,
because words negate that. Whatever I am telling you, is not the
truth, because it has come out of the ‘I am’.
345
While I am talking about it (‘I am’) I take you to the source of the
spring. There, water is coming out in a trickle now. This trickle
subsequently becomes a river, an estuary, and finally the sea, I take
you to the source again and again. Once you arrive at the source,
you come to know that actually there is no water, the water is
purely the taste, the news that ‘I am’.
346
There is no explanation for how this seed, this consciousness or
knowledge ‘I am’ has arisen. But once it is in existence, it cannot
stand still – that is, consciousness is tantamount to ‘movement’.
And all movement takes place through the ‘gunas’, which are
inherent in the knowledge ‘I am’. This consciousness keeps on
‘humming’ – (Maharaj uses the Marathi word ‘gun-gun’, which
means the humming sound or the humming of the ‘gunas’) – and
expresses itself through the three ‘gunas’.
347
This ‘gun-gun’ (humming) is within the knowledge ‘I am’, which
includes the physical form. The ‘gun-gun’ entity and the
knowledge ‘I am’ and the physical form – that whole bundle – has