e-book I AM : the complete 'I am' quotes of Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Guest guest]

I have prepared a small e-book that I have been using for focusing and abiding

in the 'I am' earnest disciples of Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj may find it useful:

 

Title of book: I AM

 

Sub-title: The complete 'I am' quotes of Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Availability: e-mail me at aptep for an attachment(about 210KB)

 

Introduction to the e-book:

 

These quotes have been compiled from seven books that cover almost all the

dialogues of Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am That translated by Maurice Frydman,

Seeds of Consciousness, Prior to Consciousness and Consciousness and the

Absolute edited by Jean Dunn and The Experience of Nothingness, The Nectar of

Immortality and The Ultimate Medicine edited by Robert Powell.

Other works that are mostly expositions of his teachings like: The Blissful

life by Robert Powell, Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj by Ramesh Balsekar, I

Am That I Am by Stephen Wolinsky, Song of I Am edited by Jerry Katz and the ASMI

– I Am That excerpts compiled and edited by Miguel-Angel Carrasco have not been

referred to.

Apart from his teachings, all these texts give a lot of information on Shri

Nisragadatta Maharaj. Some other books that may also be of interest are: The

Wisdom teachings of Nisargatta Maharaj: A visual journey published by

Innerdirections, The Last days of Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj published by Yogi

impressions and Self Knowledge and Self Realization by Nisargadatta Maharaj,

edited by Jean Dunn.

A very useful book is a small one called, Master Key to Self-Realization by

Siddharameshwar Maharaj (Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Guru). This is now available as

a part of the book, Master of Self-Realization published by Shri Sadguru Trust.

The Master Key is an amazing and extremely potent book that lays the foundation

of Shri Nisargadattta Maharaj’s teaching. His Guru, Siddharameshwar Maharaj

describes in explicit detail the four bodies: the Gross body, the Subtle body,

the Causal body and the Supra-Causal body. A step-by-step procedure is described

for going through all these bodies and finally transcending them all to reach

the final destination, that is the ‘Parabrahman’ or the Absolute. As I

understand it, Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s primary teaching is to focus and

abide in the ‘I am’ which is the root of the Subtle body, after abiding here for

a sufficiently long time one just rolls over into ‘I am not’ which is the

experience in the Causal body. On this happening, one

automatically, without any effort, ‘is’ in the Supra-causal body (‘Turiya’).

Now, it is only a step away from the Absolute.

This collection of all the ‘I am’ quotes of Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj have

been prepared to be used as device to get focused on the ‘I am’. Most of these

quotes are as such, while some have been prepared by resorting to concatenations

for maintaining the ‘I am’ theme during a dialogue session.

According to me, none of Maharaj’s dialogues require any exposition, anyone

with a reasonable amount of intelligence and of course, a deep interest in the

subject can understand what he is trying to say. I assume that most of those who

use this text have already read all the seven books (or should I say

‘scriptures’) used for these quotes, and if not all, at least, I Am That, which

is the primary book (scripture).

Let us now, lay aside expositions, and move ahead with execution, which is

what Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj wanted us all to do – just abide in the ‘I am’

 

Pradeep

 

 

 

 

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