I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj’s most seminal work is I Am That. It can be freely downloaded from the Internet but I encourage you to buy a hardcopy. The Acorn Press one has the best quality (paper) binding and is the one to go for.

3 Nisargadatta quotes are given from the front cover:
*” The real does not die, the unreal never lived.”

“Once you know that death happens to the body and not to you, you just watch your body falling off like a discarded garment.”

“The real you is timeless and beyond birth and death. The body will survive as long as it is needed. It is not important that it should live long”*

2 quotes are given in the inside cover, indicating that Nisargadatta’s teachings are in line with the advaita vedanta:

*“That in whom all beings reside 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”
Amritbindu Upanishad

“That which permeates all, that which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Sumpreme non-dual Brahmn - that thou art”
Shankaracharya*