Nisargadatta Maharaj: How did you get this “I Am-ness”? Did it come spontaneously, or did you try for it? As the Absolute, you were free from all concepts, including the primary concept “I Am”. Suddenly you were caught up in this “I Am-ness”. Who did it? Has it not happened spontaneously?
Question: Yes, that is true.
Nisargadatta Maharaj: You did not have this concept “I Am” in the course of the nine months in the womb. Understand this state of affairs; the concept “I Am” comes spontaneously and goes spontaneously. Amazingly, when it appears, it is accepted as real. All subsequent misconceptions arise from that feeling of reality in the “I Am-ness”. Try to stabilize in that primary concept “I Am”, in order to lose that and with it all other concepts. Why am I totally free? Because I have understood the unreality of that “I Am”.
I offer my salutations to all the prophets, creeds, religions, etc. I know they are not real, they are only the play of this consciousness. The Truth, the Eternal, cannot be witnessed. It ever prevails.
In your true state there are no words, but you think yourself important and you embrace many words. Poor human beings are caught between worldly life and spiritual life. One in a million understands all this play of consciousness, transcends it.