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The Nisargadatta Gita by Pradeep Apte - Part 35

read by James Traverse



The Nisargadatta Gita
Pradeep Apte
 
 
      
  35. When you know both the ‘I am’ and the ‘I am not’
  then you are the Absolute which transcends both
  knowingness and not-knowingness.

    As you abide in the ‘I am’ for a longer time you shall
  also realize the state of ‘I am not’ or there will be a
  state of ‘knowing’ and ‘not-knowing’.

  Both these states are states of consciousness in its purity;
  they are the very beginnings of duality.

 The very arrival of the concept ‘I am’ implies the ‘I am not’
   hidden in it or ‘knowing’ has ‘not-knowing’ implied in it,
    they are opposites, they are pairs and always go together
    and are impossible to separate.

 But you are the Absolute which transcends both of them;
 you are a witness to both these states, they have only appeared
   on you, they never belonged to you and are illusory.