He rejects that he is his mind, which he says belongs to the body. He foremost rejects that he is his body which is repeated ad nauseum in this text. In all of his eccentricities, his teachings get to the heart of the matter: we are not what we take ourselves to be, we are the very universe itself. He only spoke in Marathi, and would employ translators for Westerners. He liked to argue with his disciples, and would kick them out if he felt they have overstayed their welcome after receiving the essence of his teachings. Nisargadatta Maharaj gave satsang, or spiritual teachings, based out his Bombay (Mumbai) apartment until his death in 1981. He wasn’t a typical yoga practitioner. He made a living making and selling cigarettes on the street and chain smoked them as he gave his teachings. The book is in the the typical question and answer format one reads in most of the non-dualist genre. It took me so long because the concepts in the book, when thought about and considered, are among the deepest one may experience. The book contains 101 chapters which are two to four pages long. It certainly wasn’t long drawn out chapters. Any high school student could understand it if they have the patience to decipher some the Sanskrit terminology that can be found in the book’s appendix. Why did it take me so long? It certainly wasn’t that he used complicated words. I started reading it in late May and just finished now in mid-September.
I just finished all 531 pages of I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj, translated by Maurice Frydman.
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