I am that by nisargadatta on pdf

See all 5 questions about I Am That…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Nov 08, Guttersnipe Das rated it it was amazing. For this reason, I thought I might give a little advice about how to keep company with this book, a very beautiful and peculiar one, and unlike any other. You will find your own way, as many others have before you.

After all, this is the favorite book of many of the strangest people you will ever meet. If you are new to this way of thinking, and you wish to read I AM THAT, or are struggling to read it now, it would help tremendously to first read a friendly introduction to Advaita Vedanta.

Sri Ramanasramam publishes a great number of useful books. Aim for something rooted in the life of a person, preferably someone long-dead, and not a rarefied philosophical summary. If you seek a living teacher, please be wary. These teachings have been commodified to a degree difficult to believe. Advaita is now big business. Genuine teachers are available, but you'll need your wits about you!

I do not doubt some people have attained enlightenment while hopscotching around this book. Where to begin? I suggest Chapter Awareness is Free.

Then turn to the chapters which focus on Sri Nisargadatta's own experience, such as chapters 57 and Besides this, I found it very useful to create, among the end pages of the book, a personal index of what I found most useful and most inspiring.

At some point in the process, you may find your sense of life and yourself and the world disintegrating. This is normal. Just take it easy, OK? Take long walks and, for goodness sake, keep your mouth shut! All the mysteries of life are in it! I think I might be enlightened.

Shouldn't we be sleeping together? The mysteries are indeed here, with stunning clarity and endless determined good humor. But if you get stuck, don't feel you have to read it front to back, play hopscotch. View all 21 comments. If I had to choose one 'spiritual' book, just one, only one Nisargadatta points to the 'truth' with such clarity. View all 3 comments. Apr 09, David Simoni rated it it was amazing Shelves: dharma. If I had to pick one book to take to a desert island, I Am That would be it!

I've read it numerous times and still find inspiration and guidance from it. It is filled with so many pearls of wisdom that I underlined practically the whole book! View 1 comment. Nov 29, Ann Debaldo rated it it was amazing.

Have read several times over the years - each time, it is a different book! Jun 18, David Guy rated it it was amazing. I have been reading this book for eight or nine years, picking it up now and then and reading it for a week or two, then taking something else up. I began reading it when my first meditation teacher, Larry Rosenberg, told me quite casually, when we were in a bookstore that it was a great book, and great it is.

It is a series of dialogues with an Indian man, an ordinary householder, who is enlightened. I don't know what that word means, but I do know that Sri Nisargadatta sees the world much di I have been reading this book for eight or nine years, picking it up now and then and reading it for a week or two, then taking something else up. I don't know what that word means, but I do know that Sri Nisargadatta sees the world much diffently than I do.

People came to him from all over the world with their questions, their concerns, their complaints, and he responded in most unusual ways. Sometimes I have no idea what he's talking about and sometimes he startles me with his simple good sense. The book is often quite funny, because people are struggling so much, and become quite angry as he tells them they don't have to do that.

Having read it through once it's pages I will now read it through again; I'll probably be reading it for the rest of my life. It's endlessly interesting and endlessy boring, both. It's indescribable.

Sep 23, Judy rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: anyone who seeks the truth within. You cannot go wrong with this book, though my edition is much older, worn and tattered from travels with me, including India. I had the good fortune to meet Nisargadatta in his home in Mumbai, when it was still Bombay, many years ago and hear him talk. I never will forget his kind presence This book is for every spiritual seeker who wants to stop seeking.

Nisargadatta was that rare being who lived as he taught. He was what he taught. View all 13 comments. Shelves: guru , spirituality , self-realization. It;s its own goal. It manifests spontaneosly and effortlessly, when things are left to themselves, are not interfered with, not shunned, or wanted, or conceptualized, but just experienced in full awarness. Only keep alert - and quiet. Once you reach your destination and know your real nature, your exstence becmoes a blessing to all.

You may not know, nor will the world know, yet the help irradiates. There are people in the world who do more good them everybody. They radiate light and peacewith no intention or knowledge. They are just unable to desire anything for themselves, not even the joy of helping others knowing that God is good they are at peace. Dec 03, Safat rated it it was amazing. Not everyone can read this book. Even after half a century of its publication, perhaps only a handful of people around the globe has reached the state necessary to read this book.

I feel like we are a secret brotherhood. Adios amigos, brothers and sisters. View 2 comments. Sep 27, Rory rated it it was amazing. This book is always on my bedside table and is the most important book I have ever read. Aug 19, Barnaby Thieme rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , yoga , meditation. This collection of practice interviews with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj never fails to astonish me.

Students bring him the most difficult and abstruse philosophical and religious questions, and without fail he answers them clearly and directly, in plain, simple language that is easy to understand. I've rarely encountered any testimony of any spiritual master that was more persuasive on its face of the profound degree of insight and obtainment on the part of its master. Here's an example from one of This collection of practice interviews with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj never fails to astonish me.

Here's an example from one of the early sections, "What is born must die": Questioner: Is the witness-consciousness permanent or not? Maharaj: It is not permanent. The knower rises and sets with the known.

That in which both knower and the known arise and set, is beyond time. The words permanent or eternal do not apply. Q: In sleep there is neither the known, nor the knower. What keeps the body sensitive and receptive? M: Surely you cannot say that the knower was absent. The experience of things and thoughts was not there, that is all.

But the absence of experience too is experience. It is like entering a dark room and saying "I see nothing. Similarly, only the knower knows that he does not know. Sleep is merely a memory. Life goes on. Q: And what is death? M: It is the change in the living process of a particular body.

Integration ends and disintegration sets in. Can you beat that? What is death - "Integration ends and disintegration sets in. This book is a masterpiece, and an invaluable resource for anyone grappling with nondual philosophy and yoga.

Apr 19, Susan rated it it was amazing. I will be reading and re reading this book over and over for an indefinite period of time. Sri Nisaragadatta is interviewed by a westerner and his answers are as clear as crystal about why people suffer and how we can find peace within ourselves in chaos. That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings, who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being — I am that. Amritabindu Upanishad.

That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman — that thou art. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. Discover all that you are not — body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that — nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.

The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realize that you are the limitless being. There is no better summary than the quote above of the contents of this book, which, on the face of it, is beyond summarizing.

I had given some answers to questions of certain individuals. Those answers were intended for those people and not for all. Instruction can be on an individual basis only. The same medicine cannot be prescribed for all. Nisargadatta Maharaj allowed Frydman to record the conversations and subsequently translate them into English. Because even though the final destination is the same surrendering to the limitless being , the path to reach it giving up your identification with your body differs between individuals.

Some may have to break through their physical greed, others through their spiritual materialism. But all will have to stop thinking in terms of abstract intellectual concepts and start surrendering to the truth by way of earnestness, the surest sign of maturity.

Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both. Complete Self-Surrender Is Liberation. Once the sugar has been consumed or thrown away, there is no more sweetness. And if that body essence is gone, this feeling, the sense of Being, will also have gone.

This sense of Being cannot remain without the body, just as sweetness cannot remain without the material, which is sugar. Nisargadatta Maharaj: What remains is the Original, which is unconditioned, without attributes, and without identity: that on which this temporary state of the consciousness and the three states and the three gunas have come and gone. It is called Parabrahman, the Absolute.