I am that by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - HTML preview

Vyaktitva

Personality, Iimited self-identification with the body.

Yoga One of the six systems of the Hindu philosophy (from yuj, to yoke or join).

Yoga teaches the means by which the individual, spirit (jivatma) can be 550

I AM THAT

joined or united with the Universal Spirit (Paramatma). The Yoga system is believed to have been founded by Patanjali.

Yoga-Bhrashta

One who has fallen from the high state of Yoga.

Yoga-Kshetra

The field for Yoga, the physical body in a philosophical sense ( kshetra, field).

Yoga-Sadhana

Spiritual practices of Yoga.

Yogi One who practises Yoga.

This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, regarded by many as a “modern spiritual classic” is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer’s life and work. I Am That (now in its ninth printing) continues to draw new audiences and to enlighten anxious seekers for self-realization.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was a teacher who did not propound any ideology or religion but gently unwrapped the mystery of the self. His message is simple, direct, and yet sublime.

I Am That preserves his dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking guidance in destroying false identities. The sage’s sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognize and penetrate its own state of being, not “being this or that, here or there, then or now,” but just timeless being.

A simple man, Maharaj was a householder and petty storekeeper in Bombay where he lived, and died in 1981 at the age of 84. He had not been educated formally but came to be respected and loved for his insights into the crux of human pain and the extraordinary ludicity of his direct discourse. Hundreds of diverse seekers travelled the globe and sought him out in his unpretentious home to hear him. To all of them he gave hope that “beyond the real experience is not the mind, but the self, the light in which everything appears... the awareness in which everything happens.”

I Am That is a legacy from a unique teacher who helps the reader to a clearer understanding of himself as he comes to Maharaj again and again with the age-old questions, “whence am I?” and “who am I?” and

“whither am I?” The listeners were never turned away from the humble abode of Maharaj then and they are not turned away now.

ISBN 1-85300-045-3 (hardcover)

ISBN 0-89386-022-0 (softcover)