- Paperback: 531 pages
- Publisher: Chetana Private Ltd; 4 Revised edition (December 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 8185300534
- ISBN-13: 978-8185300535
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.4 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 739 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #55,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ever since it was originally published in 1973 "I AM THAT" a modern spiritual classic has run into reprint (Paperback and Hardcover both put together) seventeen times.That is the kind of popularity the book is enjoying.
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,the spiritual teacher, again and again with the age-old questions,"where am I" "who am I" and "whither am I".The listeners were never turned away from the humble abode of Maharaj then and are not turned away now!
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Final Spiritual Teaching,
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This review is from: I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta (Paperback)
Nisargadatta Maharaj's "I AM THAT" is the last spiritual book you'll ever need to read. Congratulations, you've reached the end of your search! Nisargadatta's words are alive and will cut like a razor to the core of your being. Get this book! Read it and be devoured by it. Here are a few quotes... Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. (I AM THAT p.113) General knowledge develops the mind, no doubt. But if you are going to spend your life in amassing knowledge, you build a wall round yourself. To go beyond the mind, a well-furnished mind is not needed. (p50) The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of al mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in. (p260) Leave it all behind you. Forget it. Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs. Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives. (p340) All are mere words, of what use are they to you? You are entangled in the web of verbal definitions and formulations. Go beyond your concepts and ideas; in the silence of desire and thought the truth is found. (p295) Too much analysis leads you nowhere. There is in you the core of being which is beyond analysis, beyond the mind. You can know it in action only. The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want possitive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind. (p341) Before you can know anything directly, non-verbally, you must know the knower. So far, you took the mind for the knower, but it is not so. The mind clogs you up with images and ideas, which leave scars in memory. You take remembering to be knowledge. True knowledge is ever fresh, new, unexpected. It wells up from within. When you know what you are, you also are what you know. Between knowing and being there is no gap. (p520) Consciousness, being a product of conditions and circumstances, depends on them and changes along with them. What is independent, uncreated, timeless and changeless and yet ever new and fresh is beyond the mind. When the mind thinks of it, the mind dissolves and only happiness remains. (p488) [With self-awareness] you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true. (p346) Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all. (p197) Stephen Wingate
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A paperbound nuclear reaction for your mind.,
By Quantum Prescience (this endless-beginningless-impermanent-reality) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta (Paperback)
In the last year, I've read some of the most powerful books ever written on spiritual awakening / realization / enlightenment. None so far, has surpased what these concatenated symbols found in this book have emoted within me. He speaks from the Ultimate Ground of Being and addressing that same Ground within me - it's like I'm listening to a recorded message I've left myself to remind myself of who I am.[If you've ever had a lucid dreaming experience, I can tell you that his message/Self-reminder will probably elicit the same feeling-realization you had upon achieving consciousness inside a dream for the very first time.] His words cut through the ego, makes ashes of spellbounding psychological time in order to reveals what is naked, true, brilliantly vivid and Real; your own true being which cannot be described, only experienced. I feel as though my whole search has lead me to this point. If you find yourself here reading this review then congratulations! It's time to wake up sunshine because you've been dreaming for far too long.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A life-changing book,
By Juan flores (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (Paperback)
A life-changing book, May 10, 2012By Juan flores (Canada) - See all my reviews This review is from: I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (Paperback) This book consists of dialogues between people who come from around the world in search of self-realization and the nature of consciousness , and Sri Nasargadatta Maharaj, one of the greatest mystics of India. His answers have the depth of the most sacred texts of the world. This is a book for someone who has no fear to plunge into the unknown with the tool of his or her own awareness, awakened and sharpened by Maharaj's insights, which carry our consciousness far beyond its persistent perception of reality. Since my twenties I was searching to find the nature of reality in philosophy, quantum physics, cognitive science. For all of these domains, as awesome and beneficial as they can be, consciousness is still the "hard problem", still the mystery they cannot measure or resolve. Maharaj did... not simply by investigating consciousness with sophisticated instruments to find its correlation, its geography, its location in the brain, its processes, and not only by discussing about it, but by going directly through and beyond the feeling and consciousness of `I Am'. While meditating on his insights, I discovered what were the feelings and conditionings which veiled my mind from Maharaj's outstanding experience . Experience which, as he claims, cannot emerge from an anthropomorphic projection, a fear of dying or a dualistic vision of reality. This is a book for the one who is not afraid to free his/her consciousness from its traditional or cultural brainwashing, and for a mind sharp enough to grasp the deep meaning of Maharaj's insights, by going beyond our usual meaning of words -like `God' -and beyond the apparent contradictions involved in his answers. I must add that the cleverness of the people who ask him challenging questions is quite amazing, and is representative of our most brilliant minds.
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