18. The Nisargadatta Song of Beyond I Am (Edited by Jerry Katz) for Excerpts from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's I AM THAT

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ASMI Excerpts from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's I AM THATcompiled and edited by Miguel-Angel CarrascowithThe Nisargadatta Song of I Am and The Nisargadatta Song of Beyond I Amcompiled and edited by Jerry KatzCONTENTS1. I am not this person, this body-mind, or any thing........................................ 4As I can't be what I perceive, I am not this body-mind or any thing that I amconscious of.As there must be something unchanging to register discontinuity, I am not thisbody-mind, which is neither continuous nor permanent.As the person is a changing stream of mental objects that I as the subject take tobe my body-mind, I cannot be a person. I am, but I can't be this or that.As it is my presence, which is always here and now, that gives the quality ofactual to any event, I must be beyond time and space. I was never born, nor willever die.2. I am the Self, the Witness of Consciousness, pure Awareness....................... 8I am only the Self , which is universal and imagines itself to be the outer self,a person.I am not an object in Consciousness but its source, its Witness, pure shapelessAwareness.Only the feeling "I am", though in the World, is not of the World nor can bedenied.3. The World exists only as a dream in my Consciousness: Part One ...............12As I only know the contents of my consciousness, and as an outside world isunprovable, all perceivables are only in my mind.Transient things only appear and have no substance.What changes has no reality. Time and space are imagined, ways of thinking, modesof perception. Only timeless reality is, and it is here and now.4. The World exists only as a dream in my Consciousness: Part Two ................17Whatever has a form is only limitations imagined in my consciousness.The World is but a show, a make-belief.

The World I perceive is entirely private, a dream.Desire and fear come from seeing the World as separate from my-Self.While I see the dream as real, I'll suffer being its slave.Nothing in the dream is done by me.5. There is only one dreamer, the one Self, dreaming many dreams........................ 22In every body there is a dream, but the dreamer is the same, the one Self, whichreflects itself in each body as "I am".All the dreams are of a common imaginary World and influence each other.Love is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.6. I alone am, the One, the Supreme............................................................................ 24Not only the multiplicity of selves is false: even the duality of I/World,Subject/Object, is a transient appearance in myConsciousness.There is only my-Self, Consciousness.I am not even Consciousness, which is dual and perceivable: I am the unknownReality beyond.Though unknown and unknowable, my real being is concrete and solid like a rock.I am the light that makes Consciousness possible, pure Awareness, the non-dualSelf, the Supreme Reality, the Absolute, the Beingness of being, the Awarenessof consciousness.7. The big cycle: part one.............................................................................................. 32The alternation of manifested (existence, becoming) - unmanifested(pure being).The manifestation of the Absolute.8. The big cycle: part two.............................................................................................. 35The return to the Absolute.There are no real differences. Only the One is.9. The goal: Liberation through Self-Realization...................................................... 43The gospel of self-realization

The enlightened one (gnani)10. The way to Self-Realization: Part One................................................................ 49Not through activity. No effort is necessary, but there is a precondition:earnestness now11. The way to Self-Realization: Part Two............................................................ 55Not through knowledge of things or experiences, but through self-knowledge.12. The way to Self-Realization: Part Three......................................................... 61Not through the mind.See everything as a dream, a show, a film.13. The way to Self-Realization: Part Four........................................................... 67See that happiness is not pleasure; see that desires and fears create bondage; andbe free and happy through detachment.14. The way to Self-Realization: Part Five............................................................ 75As self-identification with the body-mind is the poison that causes bondage, seekliberation by seeing that oneself is not any thing personal or perceivable.15. The way to Self-Realization: Part Six.............................................................. 83Meditation, Witness attitude, Awareness.No thought but "I am".16. Miscellaneous..................................................................................................... 92Why the ignorance and the illusion? What is the purpose of it all?Violence, Evil, Sin.Progress.Karma.Death, Suicide, Reincarnation.Religions, God.The real Guru.

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