21. Who am I? for I Am That: Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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I AM THAT

Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings, who is thegiver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being-- I am that. Amritbindu Upanishad

That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like theuniversal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman -- that thou art.Sankaracharya

The seeker is he who is in search of himself.Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact youare sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not.Struggle to find out what you are in reality.To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you arenot. Discover all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. Thevery act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described innegative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your searchand realise that you are the limitless being.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Table of Contents

ForewordWho is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj?Translators NoteEditors Note1. The Sense of ‘I am’2. Obsession with the body3. The Living Present4. Real World is Beyond the Mind5. What is Born must Die6. Meditation7. The Mind8. The Self Stands Beyond Mind9. Responses of Memory10. Witnessing11. Awareness and Consciousness12. The Person is not Reality13. The Supreme, the Mind and the Body14. Appearances and the Reality15. The

16. Desirelessness, the Highest Bliss17. The Ever-Present18. To Know What you Are, Find What you Are Not19. Reality lies in Objectivity20. The Supreme is Beyond All21. Who am I?22. Life is Love and Love is Life23. Discrimination leads to Detachment24. God is the All-doer, the

a Non-doer25. Hold on to ‘I am’26. Personality, an Obstacle27. The Beginningless Begins Forever28. All Suffering is Born of Desire29. Living is Life’s only Purpose30. You are Free NOW31. Do not Undervalue Attention52. Being Happy, Making Happy is the Rhythm of Life53. Desires Fulfilled, Breed More Desires54. Body and Mind are Symptoms of Ignorance55. Give up All and You Gain All56. Consciousness Arising, World Arises57. Beyond Mind there is no Suffering58. Perfection, Destiny of All59. Desire and Fear: Self-centred States60. Live Facts, not Fancies61. Matter is Consciousness Itself 62. In the Supreme the Witness Appears63. Notion of Doership is Bondage64. Whatever pleases you, Keeps you Back 65. A Quiet Mind is All You Need66. All Search for Happiness is Misery67. Experience is not the Real Thing68. Seek the Source of Consciousness69. Transiency is Proof of Unreality70. God is the End of All Desire and Knowledge71. In Self-awareness you Learn about Yourself 72. What is Pure, Unalloyed, Unattached is Real73. Death of the Mind is Birth of Wisdom74. Truth is Here and Now75. In Peace and Silence you Grow76. To Know that You do not Know, is True Knowledge77. 'I' and 'Mine' are False Ideas

32. Life is the Supreme Guru33. Everything Happens by Itself 34. Mind is restlessness Itself 35. Greatest Guru is Your Inner Self 36. Killing Hurts the Killer, not the Killed37. Beyond Pain and Pleasure there is Bliss38. Spiritual Practice is Will Asserted and Re-asserted39. By Itself Nothing has Existence40. Only the Self is Real41. Develop the Witness Attitude42. Reality can not be Expressed43. Ignorance can be Recognised, not

44. 'I am' is True, all else is Inference45. What Comes and Goes has no Being46. Awareness of Being is Bliss47. Watch Your Mind48. Awareness is Free49. Mind Causes Insecurity50. Self-awareness is the Witness51. Be Indifferent to Pain and Pleasure78. All Knowledge is Ignorance79. Person, Witness and the Supreme80. Awareness81. Root Cause of Fear82. Absolute Perfection is Here and Now83. The True Guru84. Your Goal is Your Guru85. ‘I am’: The Foundation of all Experience86. The Unknown is the Home of the Real87. Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover88. Knowledge by the Mind, is not True Knowledge89. Progress in Spiritual Life90. Surrender to Your Own Self 91. Pleasure and Happiness92. Go Beyond the l-am-the-body Idea93. Man is not the Doer94. You are Beyond Space and Time95. Accept Life as it Comes96. Abandon Memories and Expectations97. Mind and the World are not Separate98. Freedom from Self-identification99. The Perceived can not be the Perceiver100. Understanding leads to Freedom101.

does not Grasp, nor HoldAppendix-1: Who is Sri Nisargadatta MaharajAppendix-2: Navnath Sampradaya

Foreword

That there should be yet another addition of I AM THAT is not surprising, for the sublimity of thewords spoken by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, their directness and the lucidity with which they refer tothe Highest have already made this book a literature of paramount importance. In fact, many regardit as the only book of spiritual teaching really worth studying.There are various religions and systems of philosophy which claim to endow human life withmeaning. But they suffer from certain inherent limitations. They couch into fine-sounding words theirtraditional beliefs and ideologies, theological or philosophical. Believers, however, discover thelimited range of meaning and applicability of these words, sooner or later. They get disillusioned

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