I Am That

During question and answer sessions in his small Mumbai tenement, the Hindu spiritual teacher Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj answered visitors on nonduality, and those talks became I Am That. Maurice Frydman, a disciple who spoke Marathi, taped the sessions, translated them into English and compiled them; Sudhakar S. Dixit edited the text. The teaching centers on the sense of I am: the true self is approached by seeing what it is not, neither the body nor the mind. The book runs to 101 conversations of about four pages each. After major publishers turned it down, Chetana Publications issued it in 1973 in two volumes, and its success brought crowds of foreign visitors to his home.

Sam Harris included it in his selection of 12 books everyone should read. It also appears among the books SOSV general partner Bill Liao named in an interview.