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

takes the beingness for a ride in various activities, so that it does
not dwell on itself; it is very difficult to sustain that state. And
‘tamoguna’ is the basest quality, it claims authorship or doership
for all those activities conducted through ‘rajoguna’. This is the
play happening in these three gunas (qualities). Again understand,
you are experiencing this ‘sattvaguna’, the knowledge ‘I am. This
‘I amness’ is experienced by you, the Absolute, but you are not the
‘I amness’.
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The ‘sadhana’, the discipline, is only this: The knowledge which is
dwelling in this body, the quintessence of these three ‘gunas’ – the
knowledge ‘I am’, ‘I am that’ – this is the initial step. You must be
one with it; you must abide in that only. You have to think ‘I am
not the body but I am that formless, nameless knowledge
indwelling in this body’; that (is) ‘I am’. When you abide
sufficiently long in this state, whatever doubts you may have, that
knowledge ‘I am’ itself will sprout out with life and meaning for
you, intended for you only, and everything will become clear. No
external knowledge will be necessary.
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Conviction! That is the only technique for the ‘sadhana’, if you are
thinking of any initiation…only the words of the guru that you are
not the body! That is the initiation. Stay put there, in that state. It is
spontaneous, natural, that ‘shraddha’ (faith). What is that faith? ‘I
am’ without words, whatever you are that is the faith. Now you
have to elevate yourself to the state of ‘Brahman’; this is the
condition you have to develop.