I am

Without doing anything you have the knowledge ‘I am’, 
it has come spontaneously and unwillingly on you, 
stay there and put an ax to the ‘I am’.

Sitting quietly, being one with the knowledge ‘I am’, 
you will lose all concern with the world, 
then the ‘I am’ will also go, 
leaving you as the Absolute.

Just sit and know that ‘you are’ the ‘I am’ without words,
nothing else has to be done; 
shortly you will arrive to
your natural Absolute state.

Who has the knowledge ‘I am’? 
Somebody in you knows the knowledge ‘I am’, 
‘you are’. 
Who is it?

You have to understand that the ‘I am’ is even before the
arising of any words, thoughts or feelings.

Meditation means to have an objective or hold onto something. 
You are that something. 
Just being the being ‘I am’.

Sit in meditation by identifying with the ‘I am’, 
dwell only on the ‘I am’- not merely the words ‘I am’.

Do you require any special effort to know that ‘you are’?
The ‘I am’ without words itself is God.

The ‘I am’ is the awareness before thoughts, 
it cannot be put into words; 
you have to ‘just be’.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj