I Am That
Contents
- Foreword
- Who is Nisargadatta Maharaj?
- Translator’s Note
- Editor’s Note
- 1 The Sense of ‘I am’
- 2 Obsession with the Body
- 3 The Living Present
- 4 Real World is Beyond the Mind
- 5 What is Born must Die
- 6 Meditation
- 7 The Mind
- 8 The Self Stands Beyond Mind
- 9 Responses of Memory
- 10 Witnessing
- 11 Awareness and Consciousness
- 12 The Person is not Reality
- 13 The Supreme, the Mind and the Body
- 14 Appearances and the Reality
- 15 The Gnani
- 16 Desirelessness, the Highest Bliss
- 17 The Ever-present
- 18 To Know What you Are, Find What you Are Not
- 19 Reality lies in Objectivity
- 20 The Supreme is Beyond All
- 21 Who am I?
- 22 Life is Love and Love is Life
- 23 Discrimination leads to Detachment
- 24 God is the All-doer, the Gnani a Non-doer
- 25 Hold onto ‘I am’
- 26 Personality, an Obstacle
- 27 The Beginningless Begins Forever
- 28 All Suffering is Born of Desire
- 29 Living is Life’s only Purpose
- 30 You are Free NOW
- 31 Do not Undervalue Attention
- 32 Life is the Supreme Guru
- 33 Everything Happens by Itself
- 34 Mind is Restlessness Itself
- 35 Greatest Guru is Your Inner Self
- 36 Killing Hurts the Killer, not the Killed
- 37 Beyond Pain and Pleasure there is Bliss
- 38 Spiritual Practice is Will Asserted and Re-asserted
- 39 By Itself Nothing has Existence
- 40 Only the Self is Real
- 41 Develop the Witness Attitude
- 42 Reality can not be Expressed
- 43 Ignorance can be Recognized, not Gnana
- 44 ‘I am’ is True, all else is Inference
- 45 What Comes and Goes has no Being
- 46 Awareness of Being is Bliss
- 47 Watch your Mind
- 48 Awareness is Free
- 49 Mind Causes Insecurity
- 50 Self-awareness is the Witness
- 51 Be Indifferent to Pain and Pleasure
- 52 Being Happy, Making Happy is the Rhythm of Life
- 53 Desires Fulfilled, Breed More Desires
- 54 Body and Mind are Symptoms of Ignorance
- 55 Give up All and You Gain All
- 56 Consciousness Arising, World Arises
- 57 Beyond Mind, there is no Suffering
- 58 Perfection, Destiny of All
- 59 Desire and Fear: Self-centred States
- 60 Live Facts, not Fancies
- 61 Matter is Consciousness Itself
- 62 In the Supreme the Witness Appears
- 63 Notion of Doership is Bondage
- 64 Whatever Pleases you, Keeps you Back
- 65 A Quiet Mind is All You Need
- 66 All Search for Happiness is Misery
- 67 Experience is not the Real Thing
- 68 Seek the Source of Consciousness
- 69 Transiency is Proof of Unreality
- 70 God is the End of All Desire and Knowledge
- 71 In Self-awareness you Learn about Yourself
- 72 What is Pure, Unalloyed, Unattached is Real
- 73 Death of the Mind is Birth of Wisdom
- 74 Truth is Here and Now
- 75 In Peace and Silence you Grow
- 76 To Know that You do not Know, is True Knowledge
- 77 ‘I’ and ‘Mine’ are False Ideas
- 78 All Knowledge is Ignorance
- 79 Person, Witness and the Supreme
- 80 Awareness
- 81 Root Cause of Fear
- 82 Absolute Perfection is Here and Now
- 83 The True Guru
- 84 Your Goal is Your Guru
- 85 ‘I am’: The Foundation of all Experience
- 86 The Unknown is the Home of the Real
- 87 Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover
- 88 Knowledge by the Mind, not True Knowledge
- 89 Progress in Spiritual Life
- 90 Surrender to Your Own Self
- 91 Pleasure and Happiness
- 92 Go Beyond the I-am-the-body Idea
- 93 Man is not the Doer
- 94 You are Beyond Space and Time
- 95 Accept Life as it Comes
- 96 Abandon Memories and Expectations
- 97 Mind and the World are not Separate
- 98 Freedom from Self-identification
- 99 The Perceived can not be the Perceiver
- 100 Understanding leads to Freedom
- 101 Gnani does not Grasp, nor Hold
- Appendix I Nisarga Yoga
- Appendix II Navanath Sampradaya
- Appendix III Glossary
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I Am That