Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj

Even better than I'm that. Requires slow reading and rereading, especially if you are not native in english. You can meditate on each sentence. Very deep. But be warned, it's not a book for everyone. Especially if you worship some religion, or pursue career goals, it will profoundly shatter your beliefs and you will know it's the truth.

This may be the only book you will wish to read to understand and experience the true self.The seeking stops here and the seeker is understood fully.

Very good book

Amazing book

Great overview of Nisargadatta's teachings, systematised by one of his translators, and interspersed with anecdotes along the way. The language he uses is very different from that of Nisargadatta and he frequently refers to terns such as noumenon and phenomenon. The book could also be read as a partial summary of Vedanta's highest teachings.Some excerpts:"The interesting point about this process of objectivization is that it does necessarily take place in consciousness, which is the source of all conceptualizing, and, therefore, in effect, the so-termed cognizer-subject and cognized-object are both objects phenomenalized in consciousness like dream-figures. But, that cognizer-object (which cognizes the cognized-object) assumes the identity of the subject as a separate entity -- a 'self' -- and gives the cognized object an identity as the 'other'. Thus is born the concept of the 'individual' through illusion, the power of the Maya, or whatever.""The important point is that both these cognizer-subject and the cognized-object are interdependent objects and can only exist in the consciousness in which the manifestation process occurs, and which consciousness indeed is what we are!""Do we need it all again, briefly? Here it is:(1) Manifested existence is phenomenal, and phenomena being appearance sensorially cognizable and time-bound is a vision, a dream, a hallucination and therefore untrue. Unmanifested existence is Absolute, intemporal, spaceless, not aware of existing, sensorially not cognizable, eternal, therefore true. Who says this? Consciousness, of course, trying to cognize itself and not succeeding because cognizing (there is no cognizer as such) cannot cognize that which itself is cognizing: An eye can not see itself although it sees everything else. The seeker is the sought: This is the basic all-important truth.(2) I, unmanifested, am the total potentiality, the absolute absence of the known and the knowable, the absolute presence of the unknown and the unknowable. I, manifest, am the totality of all phenomena, totality of the known in the inconceivability of the unmanifested unknown. (3) There can be only I -- the eternal I -- totally unconditioned, without the slightest touch of any attribute, pure subjectivity. The mere thought of 'me' is immediate and spontaneous (but illusory) bondage: Let the me disappear and, immediately and spontaneously, you are I.(4) Phenomenally, 'me' (and 'you' and 'he') is only an appearance in consciousness: How can an appearance be in bondage? Noumenally, how can I -- pure subjectivity -- need any liberation? Liberation is only being rid of the idea that there is any 'one' who needs liberation.(5) How is one to know if one is making 'progress' spiritually? Could it be that the surest sign of 'progress' is a lack of concern about progress and an absence of anxiety about liberation in the wake of clear apprehension? An instant apperception of the total 'functioning' of Nisarga (nature) in which there is no place for an autonomous entity."

Most books about Nisargadatta’s teachings miss the mark and I have to throw them out.This book helps my heart to better see nisargadatta’s wisdom so I am glad I took the chance and bought it. It shines a light on something I care about and does so in a way that helps me.

It is very fortunate for a seeker in Truth to be in touch postumely with the teaching of Sri Nasigardatta Mahaj.

Then this should be it. Fantastic exposition by Ramesh Balsekar on what Nisargadatta Maharaj wanted to say all his life. Much better than "I am that" since the flow is much seamless and language is simple. Just reading a few of the annexures in the book should also suffice. For the first time I understood why Maharaj elevates consciousness to the level of God and at the same time blames it for all the troubles in the world !!Highly recommended.

Nisargadatta war wie kaum ein zweiter in der Lage, über das zu sprechen, über das nicht gesprochen werden kann. Beeindruckend, wie ein Mann ohne Bildung aus reiner Innenschau in der Lage ist, derartige Diskurse zu führen. Sein Schüler Ramesh Balsekar schafft es durch seine Auswahl und Zusammenfassung, noch mehr Klarheit als in "Ich bin" herzustellen. Dies ist kein Buch für Esoterik-Weltverbesserer. Wenn du die Tatsache, dass es keine "Person" gibt, nicht akzeptieren kannst, wirst du mit Advaita nicht glücklich. Wenn ich mich auf drei Bücher beschränken müsste, wäre dies das erste. Das zweite: Karl Renz, Erstes und Letztes

ニサルガダッタ・マハラジの本は、邦訳の｢アイ・アム・ザット｣を堪能したあと、洋書で、ロバート・パウウェル編集の３冊、ジーン・ダン編集の３冊に挑戦してみたが、レベルが｢第二段階｣という感じで、第一段階の理解もおぼつかない私には難解で歯が立たない。それに比べると、本書はわかりやすい。「アイ・アム・ザット」が好きな人なら、その追補篇として、気に入ると思う。自らもグルになったラメッシ・Ｓ・バルセカール、さすがによくわかってらっしゃる。