I am unborn - talks with Nisargadatta

 37. Transcend the ‘I am’

21st January 1980 

Visitor: Who says ‘I am the consciousnesses’? And is it the ‘I am 

consciousness’ that traces the question to memories? 

Maharaj: Don’t just disown the body and name as you are, but see that you focus your attention on the ‘I am’ and all the questions will be answered. 

V: What prevents us from receiving grace? 

M: The quality of your faith should be intense, firm and lasting.

V: Is the desire to be free also that of the body-mind? 

M: No, it is not in a bodily sense. As you get identified with the ‘I am’, devoid of the body, you have only to abide in the Self

V: Is that also desire? 

M: No, It is a very strong conviction that you are not the body mind.

V: Krishnamurti said that desire breeds disorder. This daily life, hard work and study can it be a hindrance in Self-knowledge? 

M: Who is asking this? 

V: I am.

M: Catch hold of that ‘I am’ only and all obstacles will evaporate. If you correctly understand me, you will be beyond the realm of body-mind. Many a times it happens that teachings are misunderstood. Because the ‘I am’ is there, these questions arise, If the ‘I am’ is not there, no questions can arise. 

In the realm of ‘I am’ anything is possible, but if I were alert enough, do you think I would have been in this body?

The Jnani is the one who knows that beingness, the world and Brahman are unreal. Having understood the ‘I am’, I transcend it and came to the conclusion that all the three entities are unreal, and then what more remains to be liquidated? The ‘Parabrahaman’ is without attributes and I am ‘Parabrahaman’, I am not the beingness, the world nor Brahman.

🕉I AM UNBORN

(Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)