You’re awareness – knowing that you are – depends on your body, thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sensations, associations; all being your perceptual apparatus. If you reject all of them, then you’ll become your non-verbal “I Am.” But, as Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said: “Even the experience of I Am is a concept, it is temporary, it comes one day and it will go.” Even this is only a stage that will eventually disappear. So, what comes next? Consciousness. Everything is consciousness. Nothing is outside of it. (Here, we are talking about consciousness, not the Consciousness that is its consciousness).
What does it mean? It means that all perceivables and all conceivables are consciousness-dependant. But, consciousness or beingness is also temporary. Which means that consciousness is not “It.”

So, what is “It”? I Am prior to the consciousness. I Am the nameless, prior to the word “nameless.” I Am that, prior to the word “that.”
“When you realize that the consciousness is not the Truth, then you are beyond consciousness” said Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. He also said: “Don’t concentrate on the meditation, concentrate on the meditator – yourself. Give up the desire to improve yourself.”
This is understandable. Why would you try to improve something that is not you? Rather than focusing on consciousness, be it. Be consciousness. Then, there is nothing to get better, nothing to improve, nothing to be healed. There’s nothing or no one to be enlightened.

There’s nothing to be known about the absolute. You only “know” about It, because It appears in your consciousness. Prior to consciousness, beyond the consciousness, prior even to “that” there is nothing of the Absolute.
The I Am is a temporary state, a stage, a concept to be discarded. As the I starts slowly to dissolve, all you are left with is the impersonal consciousness. “Forget me forget my teachings, stay in the consciousness and your own unique path will emerge” said Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
The teachings are pointers, words, which are abstract representations that ultimately become distractions. As he said: “You are not who you take yourself to be.”

And what Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj though about the spirituality? “Later I understood the meaning of spirituality and came to the conclusion that it is as discardable as dishwater. Therefore, I am in no way concerned with spirituality.” Why it means nothing? Because spirituality is merely a concept, it is a by-product of consciousness.
We must avoid spiritual trappings – concepts and rules that tell us what to do, how to behave, how to be, membership of organizations, special groups, etc. because they all keep us outside, instead of helping us to go inside of the consciousness. Stay in the consciousness that is the closest place to your true origin – the Absolute. As Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said: “We are all rays of the Absolute.”