tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71109152025354678282024-02-08T02:02:35.549-08:00Song of the AvadhutDattatreya translated by Swami AbhayanandaMichael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110915202535467828.post-29093301015192002552010-03-24T18:22:00.003-07:002021-09-09T16:03:42.255-07:00Chapter One<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">1.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, it is by the grace of God</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Then a man is released at last</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">From the great fear of life and death.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All that exists in this world of forms</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, shall the Infinite worship Itself?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Shiva is one undivided Whole!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The five subtle elements that combine to compose this world</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To whom, then, shall I bow my head?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I, myself, am the stainless One!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">4.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, all this universe is only my Self;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is neither divided nor undivided.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can I even assert that it exists?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I can only view it with wonder and awe!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">5.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What, then, is the heart of the highest truth,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is, “I am the Self, the formless One;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">By my very nature, I am pervading all.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">6.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That one God who shines within everything,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Who is formless like the cloudless sky,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is the pure, stainless, Self of all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Without any doubt, that is who I am.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">7.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m the infinite and immutable One;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m pure Consciousness, without any form.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I don’t know how, or to whom,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">8.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no mental karma, either good or bad;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no physical karma, either good or bad.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no verbal karma, either good or bad.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the senses; I’m the pure nectar of the knowledge of the Self.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">9.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The mind is formless like the sky,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Yet it wears a million faces.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It appears as images from the past, or as worldly forms;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But it is not the supreme Self.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">10.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m One; I’m all of this!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Yet I’m undifferentiated, beyond all forms.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, do I regard the Self?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As both the Unmanifest and the manifest world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">11.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You, also, are the One! Why don’t you understand?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You’re the unchanging Self, the same within everyone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You’re truly illimitable; you’re the all-pervading Light.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For you, how can there be any distinction between the day and the night?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">12.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that the Self is continuous Being,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The One within all, without any division.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The “I” is both the subject and the supreme object of meditation;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can you see two in That which is One</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">13.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither birth nor death pertain to you;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You have never been a body.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is well known that “All is Brahman”;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The scriptures have stated this in various ways.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">14.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are That which is both inside and out;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You’re Shiva; you’re everything everywhere.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why, then, are you so deluded?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you run about like a frightened ghost?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">15.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no such thing as union or separation for me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no me, no you, no manifold world;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All is the Self, and the Self alone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">16.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You can’t be heard, or smelled, or tasted;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You can’t be seen, or sensed by touch.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, you’re the ultimate Reality;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why, then, should you be troubled so?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither birth, nor death, nor the active mind,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why then, my dear, do you grieve in this way?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You and I have no name or form.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">18.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">O mind, why are you so deluded?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you run about like a frightened ghost?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Become aware of the indivisible Self!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Be rid of attachment; be happy and free!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">19.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, you’re the unchanging Essence of everything;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You’re the unmoving Unity; you’re boundless Freedom.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You have neither attachment nor aversion;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why, then, do you worry and succumb to desire?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">20.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All the scriptures unanimously declare</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That the pure, formless, undifferentiated Reality</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is absolutely no doubt about this.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All forms, understand, are only temporary manifestations;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Only the formless Essence eternally exists.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Once this truth is realized,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The one Reality is ever the same;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This is what all the wise men say.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Whether you embrace or renounce desires,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The one Consciousness remains unaffected.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you see the world as other than the Self, can that be the experience of Unity?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you see it as the Self, can that be the experience of Unity?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If it’s seen as both the Self and not the Self, can that be the experience of Unity?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The true state of freedom is to see everything as One.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are the pure Reality, always the same;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You have no body, no birth and no death.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can you say, “I know the Self”?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Or how can you say, “I don’t know the Self”?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The saying, “That thou art,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Affirms the reality of your own true Self.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The saying, “Not this, not this,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Denies the reality of the five composite elements.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is the identity of everyone;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are everything, the unbroken Whole.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The thinker and the thought do not even exist!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">O mind, how can you go on thinking so shamelessly!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I do not know Shiva; how can I speak of Him?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I do not know Shiva; how can I worship Him?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I, myself, am Shiva, the primal Essence of all;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature, like the sky, remains ever the same.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am the Essence, the all-pervading Essence;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no form of my own.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the division of subject and object;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could I possibly be an object to myself?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no such thing as an infinite form;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The infinite Reality has no form of its own.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The one Self, the supreme Reality,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are that pure and unchanging Essence;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You have no body, no birth, and no death.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For you, how could such a thing as delusion be?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could delusion exist for the Self</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When a jar is broken, the space that was inside</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Merges into the space outside.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the same way, my mind has merged in God;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To me, there appears no duality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">32.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, there’s no jar, no space within;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no body and no soul encased.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Please understand; everything is Brahman.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no subject, no object, no separate parts.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">33.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Everywhere, always, and in everything,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know this: the Self alone exists.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Everything, both the Void and the manifested world,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is nothing but my Self; of this I am certain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">34.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There are no divine scriptures, no world, no imperative religious practices;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There are no gods, no classes or races of men,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">No stages of life, no superior or inferior;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s nothing but Brahman, the supreme Reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">35.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The subject and object are unseparated and inseparable;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That undivided One is you.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When this is so, when no “other” exists,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could the Self be objectively perceived?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">36.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Non-duality is taught by some;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Some others teach duality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">They don’t understand that the all-pervading Reality</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is beyond both duality and non-duality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">37.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no color or sound to the one Reality;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It has no qualities at all.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can one even think or speak of That</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Which is far beyond both mind and speech?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">38.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When you know all this universe of forms</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To be as vacant as the sky,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Then you’ll know Brahman;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Duality will forevermore cease to be.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">39.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To some, the Self appears as other;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To me, the Self is I.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Like undivided space, One alone exists.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could the subject and object of meditation be two?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">40.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nothing of what I do or eat,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Or give or take,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Exists for me;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m Purity itself, beyond birth and death.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">41.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know that the whole of the universe is without any form.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know that the whole of the universe is forever unchanging.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know that the whole of the universe is unstained by its contents.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know that the whole of the universe is of the nature of God.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">42.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are the ultimate Reality; have no doubt.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is not something known by the mind;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is the very one who knows!</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could you think to know the Self</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">43.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Maya? Maya? How could that be?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A shadow? A shadow? It doesn’t exist.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Reality is One; it’s everything.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s all-pervasive; nothing else exists.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">44.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no beginning, middle, or end;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have never been, nor will ever be, bound.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is stainless; I’m Purity itself.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This I know as a certainty.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">45.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To me, neither the elemental particles</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nor the entire universe exists;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Brahman alone is everything.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where, then, are the castes or the stages of life?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">46.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I always recognize everything</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As the one indivisible Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That undivided One constitutes the world,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Void, all space, and the five elements</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">47.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s neither neuter, nor masculine, nor feminine.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It possesses neither intellect nor the power of thought.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can you imagine that the Self</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is either blissful or not blissful?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">48.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The practice of yoga will not lead you to purity;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Silencing the mind will not lead you to purity;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Guru’s instructions will not lead you to purity;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That purity is your Essence. It’s your very own Consciousness!</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">49.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither the gross body, consisting of five elements,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nor the subtle body exists;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Everything is the Self alone.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could the fourth state or the other three states exist?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">50.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am not bound, nor am I liberated;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m Brahman, and nothing else.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not the doer, nor am I the enjoyer;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I do not pervade anything, nor am I pervaded.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">51.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If ice and water are mixed together,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no difference between one and the other.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is the same with matter and spirit;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This is very clear to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">52.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If I’ve never been bound,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I can never be liberated.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could you think that the Self—</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">With form or without—could be bound?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">53.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I know the nature of the one supreme Being;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Like space, It extends everywhere.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And all the forms that appear within It</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Are like the (illusory) water of a desert mirage.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">54.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have neither Guru nor initiation;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no discipline, and no duty to perform.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that I’m the formless sky;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m the self-existent Purity.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">55.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are the one Purity! You have no body.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are not the mind; you’re the supreme Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“I’m the Self, the supreme Reality!”</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Say this without any hesitancy.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">56.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep, O mind? Why do you cry?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Take the attitude: “I am the Self!”</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">O dear one, go beyond the many!</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Drink the supreme nectar of Unity!</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">57.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You do not possess intelligence, nor do you possess ignorance;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nor do you possess a mixture of these two.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are, yourself, Intelligence—</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">An Intelligence that never ceases, never strays.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">58.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not attained by knowledge, or samadhi, or yoga,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Or by the passage of time, or the Guru’s instructions;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m Consciousness Itself, the ultimate Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Like the sky, though I change, I am ever the same.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">59.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no birth, no death, and no duties;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve never done anything, either good or bad.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m purely Brahman, beyond all qualities;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could either bondage or liberation exist for me?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">60.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If God is all-pervading,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Immovable, whole, without any parts,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Then there is no division in Him at all.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could He be regarded as “within” or “without”?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">61.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The whole universe is shining as One,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Without any split or break, or separate parts.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The idea of “Maya” is itself the great delusion;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Duality and Non-duality are merely concepts of the mind.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">62.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The world of form and the formless Void:</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither of these exists independently.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the One, there is neither separation nor union;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, there is nothing but Shiva alone.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">63.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You have no mother, or father, or brother;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You have no wife, or son, or friend.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You have no attachments or non-attachments;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, do you justify this anxiety of mind?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">64.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">O mind, there is neither the day (of manifestation) nor the night (of dissolution);</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My continuous Light neither rises nor sets.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could a wise man sincerely believe</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That the formless Existence is affected by forms?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">65.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is not undivided, nor is It divided;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It experiences neither sorrow nor joy.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is not the universe, nor is It not the universe;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that the Self is eternally One.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">66.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not the doer, nor am I the enjoyer;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no karma, either present or past.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no body, nor are all these bodies mine.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What could be “mine” or “not-mine” to me?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">67.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In me, there is no impurity such as attachment;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no bodily pain for me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that I’m the Self; I’m Unity.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m vast as space, like the sky above.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">68.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">O mind, my friend, what’s the good of so much speaking?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">O mind, my friend, all of this has been made quite clear.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve told you what I know to be true;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You’re the ultimate Reality. You’re unbounded, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">69.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It doesn’t matter where a yogi may die;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It doesn’t matter how he may die.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He becomes absorbed in the Absolute,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As the space within a jar becomes absorbed (in the outer space when the jar is destroyed).</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">70.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Whether he dies near a holy river,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Or in an outcaste’s hut,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Whether he is conscious or unconscious at his death,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He merges into Freedom, into Unity, alone.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">71.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All duties, wealth, enjoyments, liberation—</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All people and objects in the world as well—</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Everything, in the eyes of a yogi,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is like the (illusory) water in a desert mirage.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">72.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no action,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Either present, future, or past,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Which has been performed or enjoyed by me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This I know, without any doubt.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">73.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Avadhut lives alone in an empty hut;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">With a pure, even mind, he is always content.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He moves about, naked and free,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Aware that all this is only the Self.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">74.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where neither the third state (deep sleep) nor the fourth state (samadhi) exists,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where everything is experienced as the Self alone,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where neither righteousness nor unrighteousness exists,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Could bondage or liberation be living there?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">75.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In that state where one knows nothing at all,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This versified knowledge does not even exist.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, now, while I’m in the state of samarasa,</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I, the Avadhut, have spoken of the Truth.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">76.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is meaningless to differentiate between the Void and the world-appearance;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s pointless to speak of “the Real” and “the unreal”;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">One Self, unchanging, exists alone.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This is what all the scriptures declare.</span></div>
Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110915202535467828.post-60440431075205983702010-03-24T18:20:00.001-07:002021-09-09T15:51:04.646-07:00Chapter Two<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">1.<br />
You may be young, unlearned, and addicted to pleasures;<br />
You may be a servant or a householder; it doesn’t matter.<br />
Does a jewel require a Guru in order to be valuable?<br />
Or is it worthless simply because it’s covered with mud?<br />
<br />
2.<br />
You may lack learning or literary skill;<br />
You don’t require such qualities as these.<br />
Hold fast to the Truth, and let go of all else;<br />
Even an unpainted boat will take you across.<br />
<br />
3.<br />
The Self appears as both<br />
The animate and the inanimate world;<br />
Yet It always remains in Its own peaceful state;<br />
It is always pure Consciousness, as calm as the sky.<br />
<br />
4.<br />
Though appearing as the animate and inanimate world,<br />
The Self remains forever One.<br />
Where, then, is the division?<br />
There is no duality, it is clear to me.<br />
<br />
5.<br />
Indeed, I am the highest Truth! I’m Shiva!<br />
I contain the world, both subtle and gross.<br />
I do not come, nor do I go.<br />
I have no movement; I have no form.<br />
<br />
6.<br />
I’m unaffected by my component parts;<br />
Therefore, though the gods may worship me,<br />
In my perfect wholeness,<br />
I recognize no distinctions such as gods.<br />
<br />
7.<br />
Neither doubt nor ignorance<br />
Can cause the slightest ripple in me.<br />
Let the modifications of the mind continue to occur;<br />
They’re merely bubbles rising to the surface of a pond.<br />
<br />
8.<br />
The ephemeral elements that form all things<br />
Manifest in many different ways:<br />
Some things appear soft, others hard;<br />
Some things appear sweet, and others sour.<br />
<br />
9.<br />
The qualities of clearness, coldness, and softness<br />
Are but qualities of water.<br />
Likewise, matter and spirit (prakriti and purusha)<br />
Are but qualities of the one Existence.<br />
<br />
10.<br />
Beyond all speech, beyond all names,<br />
Beyond the subtlest of all subtle things;<br />
Beyond mind, intellect, and the five senses,<br />
The stainless Lord of the universe remains ever One.<br />
<br />
11.<br />
If the universal Self becomes known,<br />
How could “I” continue to be?<br />
How could “you”<br />
Or the sentient and insentient world still be?<br />
<br />
12.<br />
The Self is said to be like the sky.<br />
Indeed, It is like the sky;<br />
It’s pure Consciousness, without any stain.<br />
It is truly the all-embracing Whole.<br />
<br />
13.<br />
It remains unaffected,<br />
Though It takes the form of earth, air, water and fire.<br />
Though It takes all these forms,<br />
It remains always the same.<br />
<br />
14.<br />
All infinite space is pervaded by the Self,<br />
But nothing else pervades the Self.<br />
It is simultaneously within and without;<br />
It cannot be limited or divided in parts.<br />
<br />
15.<br />
It’s extremely subtle and cannot be seen;<br />
It’s primary to all qualities, the yogis say.<br />
It is the state that underlies<br />
All other temporary states of the mind.<br />
<br />
16.<br />
By practicing yoga unceasingly,<br />
Without attachment to anything,<br />
Little by little, a yogi is freed<br />
From all effects of the qualities (gunas).<br />
<br />
17.<br />
Against the dreadful poison of worldly lust,<br />
Which deludes men’s minds,<br />
There is only one antidote:<br />
The nectarean awareness of the independent Self.<br />
<br />
18.<br />
The subtle images are seen within,<br />
And the manifold forms are seen without;<br />
But the independent Experiencer of both<br />
Is known by all seers as the inner Self.<br />
<br />
19.<br />
Experienced without, It’s the universe;<br />
Experienced within, It’s the power of life.<br />
And deep within that inner life<br />
The real milk-of-the-coconut resides.<br />
<br />
20.<br />
The outer knowledge is of the coconut’s husk;<br />
The subtler knowledge is of the meat within.<br />
And concealed within that subtle core<br />
Is the coconut-milk of Consciousness—the Self.<br />
<br />
21.<br />
On a full-moon night, the moon is seen<br />
By unhazed eyes as one, alone.<br />
The Reality should also be seen this way;<br />
Where two are seen, that sight’s impaired.<br />
<br />
22.<br />
Because there is one, and only one,<br />
The mind which perceives two is false.<br />
He who teaches this is truly great;<br />
He deserves a thousand accolades.<br />
<br />
23.<br />
A Guru gives the gift of wisdom<br />
To both the wise and the foolish man;<br />
But only he crosses over this ocean (of life)<br />
Who attains the knowledge of Truth for himself.<br />
<br />
24.<br />
He who is free from attachment, free from hate—<br />
Engaged in securing the good of all,<br />
Firm in knowledge and steady of mind—<br />
Will reach at last to the highest state.<br />
<br />
25.<br />
The space inside a jar merges in the space outside<br />
When the jar is destroyed;<br />
The yogi, when the body’s destroyed,<br />
Merges into the universal Consciousness—his own true Self.<br />
<br />
26.<br />
The destiny of those devoted to action<br />
Is the result of their thought at the end of their life;<br />
But the destiny of a yogi established in Unity<br />
Is not determined by his thought at the end.<br />
<br />
27.<br />
One may express in speech<br />
The destiny of those devoted to actions,<br />
But the destiny of those established in yoga<br />
Cannot be told; they go beyond speech.<br />
<br />
28.<br />
A yogi has no particular path;<br />
He simply renounces imagining things.<br />
His mind then ceases of its own accord,<br />
And the perfect state just naturally occurs.<br />
<br />
29.<br />
Wherever a yogi may meet his end—<br />
Whether beside a holy river or in an outcaste’s hut—<br />
His births are through;<br />
He merges in Brahman.<br />
<br />
30.<br />
He who has realized the innate, unborn, incomprehensible Self<br />
Never becomes stained while enjoying the fruits of his desires;<br />
He remains always free of stain, free of karma.<br />
The ascetic, concentrated on the Self, is never bound.<br />
<br />
31.<br />
He goes beyond illusion, beyond comparison, beyond form,<br />
Beyond any support, beyond the body and its nourishment;<br />
Beyond duality, fear, desire, and powers,<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
32.<br />
His attainment is not the Vedas, nor initiation, nor a clean-shaven head;<br />
It is not a Guru, or disciples, or bountiful treasures,<br />
Or the practice of postures, or wearing of ashes;<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
33.<br />
He does not envision the form of the great Shiva, or Shakti, or any other gods;<br />
He does not see kundalini, or light-forms, or the feet of God;<br />
Nor does he perceive his own soul, like a jar with its contents;<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
34.<br />
That is the Essence from which the sentient and insentient universe is born;<br />
It is like the ocean which gives birth to the foam on its surface.<br />
It is That by which everything is maintained and dissolved;<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
35.<br />
His attainment is not breath-control, or fixed-stares, or yogic-postures;<br />
Nothing becomes learned or unlearned at all.<br />
His attainment is not the purification of the nerves;<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
36.<br />
He does not attain a “many” or a “One” that is separate from himself;<br />
It is not something other, like an object with length and breadth.<br />
It cannot be objectively proven, or compared with anything;<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
37.<br />
He may or may not attain concentration;<br />
He may or may not attain freedom from the senses;<br />
He may or may not abandon all actions;<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
38.<br />
Beyond mind, intellect, body, and sense-organs;<br />
Beyond the subtle elements, and the five gross elements;<br />
Beyond the sense of ego, and even the ethereal body;<br />
It’s the Lord, the Self, the Eternal, he attains.<br />
<br />
39.<br />
Transcending all dictates, he abides in the Self;<br />
His mind becomes free of the thought of duality.<br />
Neither purity, nor impurity, nor distinctions of sex,<br />
Nor fortune, nor misfortune, has any meaning for him.<br />
<br />
40.<br />
If the mind and speech can’t reveal the Self,<br />
How could the Guru’s teachings reveal the Self?<br />
How could a Guru reveal with words<br />
That Essence of existence which is self-illuminating?</span></span>Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110915202535467828.post-36357878435730594302010-03-24T18:17:00.002-07:002021-09-09T15:50:44.335-07:00Chapter Three<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">1.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The distinction between “with qualities” and “without qualities” does not exist in Him;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He’s beyond both attachment and non-attachment; Stainless, He’s beyond all forms.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He’s beyond both qualities and the absence of qualities; Though formless, He’s the substance of all forms.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So how can I worship that Shiva, who exists everywhere, like space!</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Shiva is not white or yellow; He has no color at all.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That supreme Shiva is both the cause and the effect.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, I am beyond the process of thought; I’m Shiva.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Tell me, friend, how can I bow the Self unto the Self?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither beginningless nor with beginning; I’m a Sun that never sets.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither concealed nor unconcealed; I’m a Sun that never sets.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither illumined nor unillumined; I’m a Sun that never sets.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">4.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m desireless, with desire; how shall I speak of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m unattached, with attachment; how shall I speak of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no substance, and yet I have; what shall I say of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">5.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m undivided, yet I’m every separate form; what shall I say of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m divided, yet I’m in everything; what shall I say of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m both eternal and non-eternal; what shall I say of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">6.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither gross nor subtle; I neither come nor go.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no beginning, end, or middle; I’m neither great nor small.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m telling all the secrets of the supreme Reality:</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">7.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know well that all sense organs are made of emptiness;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know well that all sense-objects are, likewise, emptiness.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know well that I’m the stainless One; I’m neither bound nor free.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">8.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the intellect and inaccessible to the intellect; it cannot reach to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond vision, and inaccessible to vision; it cannot reach to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">9.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no karma; I’m the sacrificial fire in which all karma’s consumed.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no sorrow; I’m the sacrificial fire in which all sorrow’s consumed.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no craving; I’m the sacrificial fire in which all craving’s consumed.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">10.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sinless, I consume all sins; I’m the sacrificial fire.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dutiless, I consume all duties; I’m the sacrificial fire.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Boundless, I consume all bondage; I’m the sacrificial fire.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">11.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond non-existence and beyond existence; these don’t pertain to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond both union and separation; these don’t pertain to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond both unconsciousness and consciousness; these don’t pertain to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">12.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m never swayed by attraction or repulsion; I never imagine these.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m never swayed by happiness or grief; I never imagine these.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m never swayed by passion or dispassion; I never imagine these.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">13.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The clinging-vine of worldly existence cannot affect me at all.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Contentment and pleasures, however many, cannot affect me at all.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The bondage of ignorance—this world of appearance—cannot affect me at all.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">14.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The worldly turmoil produced by rajo-guna has no affect on me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The suffering produced by tamo-guna has no affect on me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The pleasure of righteousness produced by sattva-guna has no affect on me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">15.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither troubles, nor sorrows, nor pleasures have any affect on my intellect;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nor can the difficulties attending yoga have any affect on my mind.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Whatever may happen to stir up the ego cannot affect me at all.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">16.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve put an end to both wavering and unwavering; I don’t even imagine thought.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve put an end to both dreaming and waking; I neither sleep nor wake.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve put an end to animate and inanimate; I’m neither moving nor still.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">17.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not the knower, nor something to be known; nor am I the cause of knowledge.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the realm of speech, the mind and the intellect;</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could the ultimate Reality ever be described by words?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">18.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond both division and non-division; I’m the absolute Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Within? Without? How could I be? I’m the absolute Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I was never created; I’m not an object with substance.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss;I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">19.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the sorrows of attachment; I’m the one Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the sorrows of destiny; I’m the one Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the sorrows of worldly existence; I’m the one Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">20.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Since I am not the first three states of mind, how could I be the fourth (samadhi)?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Since I am not any of the three kinds of time, how could I be a fourth?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m the root of serenity, the primal serenity; I’m the absolute Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">21.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Terms such as “long” or “short” do not apply to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Terms such as “broad” or “thin” do not apply to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Descriptions such as “angular” or “rotund” do not apply to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">22.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">No mother, father, daughter, or son ever belonged to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither birth, death, nor the mind ever belonged to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m always unwavering, always steady; I’m the absolute Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">23.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is boundless, beyond such distinctions as pure and impure.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is boundless, beyond such distinctions as attached or unattached.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is boundless, beyond such distinctions as divided or undivided.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">24.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could the god, Brahma, and all his attendants live there?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could the city of heaven, with all its people, live there?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My only form is stainlessness; I’m the absolute Reality.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">25.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How may I speak of that stainless One who is both “this” and “not this”?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How may I speak of that stainless One who is the unsupported Support of all?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How may I speak of that stainless One who has no gender and yet has gender?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">26.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m always the Supreme, whether I’m active or inactive.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m the highest bliss, beyond attachment and nonattachment.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m everlasting bliss, beyond both forms and formlessness.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">27.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This Maya-dream of a world has no affect on me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The crookedness and deceit of men has no affect on me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The truth or falsehood of men’s speech has no affect on me.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">28.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the distinctions of night and day; I can’t be split in parts.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I never wake from within myself; I’m never not-awake.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m never moved by thought at all; I never try to be pure.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">29.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither “the Lord,” nor am I “not the Lord”; I’m the formless Self.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond the presence or absence of the mind; I’m the formless Self.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know well that I’m free of everything; I’m the formless Self.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">30.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am a house that’s empty; what may I say of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I do everything, and yet I do nothing; what may I say of that?</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m always in the even state; I’m the formless Self.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">31.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond being a soul or not a soul; I’m forever shining forth.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond being a cause or not a cause; I’m forever shining forth.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m beyond both nirvana and bondage; I’m forever shining forth.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">32.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Unlimited by a beginning, I’m forever shining forth.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Unlimited by the continuing play, I’m forever shining forth.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Unlimited by the destruction of all, I’m forever shining forth.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">33.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Though you may be spoken of, you have neither name nor form.</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Whether you are divided or undivided, there’s nothing here but you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">O mind, O shameless, wandering mind! Why do you weary yourself so?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">34.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? There’s no old age or death for you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? There’s no pain of birth for you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You can’t be touched at all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">35.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You have no form of your own.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You cannot be deformed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You can never become old.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">36.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You can never lose your youth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You can never lose your mind.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You have no organs of sense.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">37.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You can’t be touched by lust.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You can’t be touched by greed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep and moan, my friend? You can’t be touched by infatuation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">38.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can you hanker after wealth? You have no property to support.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can you hanker after wealth? You have no wife to feed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can you hanker after wealth? Nothing can be your own.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">39.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You and I are not attached to this world of ephemeral forms;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is only the shameless mind which divides the One in parts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Division and non-division are the same to you and me;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">40.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Your nature does not contain even a little of dispassion;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Your nature does not contain even a little of passions either.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Your nature does not contain even a little of desire;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">41.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no object of worship in your heart or in the state of samadhi;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no object of worship in your heart or in the objective world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no object of worship in your heart; I’m beyond both place and time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">42.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve told you all that constitutes the very core of Truth;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no you, no me, no superior being, no disciple, and no Guru.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The nature of the supreme Reality is self-evident and simple;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">43.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could the supreme Reality be of the nature of bliss?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could the supreme Reality be of the nature of blisslessness?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could the supreme Reality possess either knowledge or ignorance?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If the supreme I am is the one Existence, It’s everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">44.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that It’s neither fire nor air; Realize the One!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that It’s neither earth nor water; Realize the One!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that It neither comes nor goes; Realize the One!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Understand that It’s like space, pervading everywhere; Realize the One!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">45.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is neither emptiness nor fullness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is neither pure nor impure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither with form nor without form.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m the supreme Reality; my nature is uniquely my own.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">46.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Renounce, renounce the world of appearance;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Then renounce renunciation as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But, whether you renounce or do not renounce,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Enjoy the nectar of your natural state.</span></div>
Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110915202535467828.post-39869915778843098282010-03-24T18:15:00.001-07:002021-09-09T15:46:13.571-07:00Chapter Four<div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1.</span></span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where is the need to make offerings or prostrations?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Or to practice worship with flowers and leaves?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why practice meditation and the repetition of mantras?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The worshipper and Shiva are one and the same.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not only free of bondage and liberation;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not only free of purity and impurity;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not only free of union and separation;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m Freedom itself; I’m everywhere, like space.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Some say, “The phenomenal world is real”;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Others say, “The world is unreal.”</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Such arguments as these have no meaning to me;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">4.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no faults, nor am I faultless.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no beginning, nor am I beginningless.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not undivided, nor am I divided.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">5.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In me, ignorance and knowledge never arise;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I never allow myself to experience those states.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could I speak of not knowing or knowing?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">6.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not bound to righteousness; I’m not bound to sin.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither bound to bondage, nor to liberation;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither of these affects me at all.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">7.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Inferior” and “superior” have no meaning to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no enemies, nor have I any friends;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could I speak of “the good” or “the evil”?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">8.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither the worshipper nor the object of worship.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I give no words of instruction, nor do I perform any actions.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Consciousness; how, then, could I speak?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">9.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s nothing that pervades, and nothing that’s pervaded;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is neither manifestation nor de-manifestation.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could I speak of “the Void” or its opposite?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">10.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, I am neither a perceiver nor an object of perception;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am not a cause, nor am I an effect.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, shall I say that I’m “the knower” or “the known”?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">11.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no superimposer and nothing superimposed;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am neither “the knower” nor “the object of knowledge.”</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could I speak of creation or dissolution?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">12.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no body, nor am I without bodies;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have neither intellect, nor mind, nor senses.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could I speak of attraction or repulsion?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">13.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">One can’t even speak of something separate from the Self;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">One cannot speak of what doesn’t exist.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak, friend, of “similar” or “dissimilar”?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">14.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither free of, nor bound by, the senses;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I follow no rules of “should” or “shouldn’t.”</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak, friend, of “success” or of “failure”?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">15.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve never been either formless or with form;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve never had a beginning, middle, or end.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak, friend, of “youth” or of “old-age”?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">16.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve never experienced death or deathlessness, nor evil or good;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">None of these opposites exist in me, my child.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak of “impurity” or “purity”?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">17.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I never experience sleeping, waking, or the deep yogic trance;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To me, there is neither night-time nor day.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak of the four states of the mind?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">18.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know well that I’m unaffected by the appearance or disappearance of the world;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To me, there is neither maya nor its absence.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak of the performance of right actions?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">19.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know well that, in samadhi, all things are One;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know also that I’m unaffected by the attainment or non-attainment of samadhi.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak of union or separation?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">20.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not unlearned, nor am I learned;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I don’t remain silent, nor do I say anything.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak of true or false doctrines?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">21.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have no father or mother; I have no family or caste;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve never known birth, and I’ve never known death.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak of affection or attachment?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">22.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My awareness of the Self is constant; I never abandon it;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So I’m never affected by darkness or light.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can I speak of my morning or evening prayers?</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">23.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know, without any doubt, that I’m limitless.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know, without any doubt, that I’m changeless.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Know, without any doubt, that no stains can touch me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">24.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Those who possess strong determination renounce meditation;</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">They renounce all their good works as well as their bad.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The nectar of renunciation they drink to their fill.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">25.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In that state where one knows nothing at all,</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This versified knowledge doesn’t even exist.</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, now, while I’m in the state of samarasa,</span></div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I, the Avadhut, have spoken of the supreme Absolute.</span></div>
Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110915202535467828.post-87544152239599153852010-03-24T18:14:00.002-07:002021-09-09T15:45:46.412-07:00Chapter Five<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">1.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">AUM pervades everything, equally, like space;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Within It, there are no distinctions such as “high” and “low.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The formless Unmanifest manifests as form;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How else could the Imperishable show forth Its Light?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Thou art That,” the scriptures proclaim;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Thou art That,” one’s own Self affirms.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are beyond all diversification, the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Beyond “high” and “low,” I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Beyond “inner” and “outer,” I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there is only the One, I’m the same Self in all;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no real distinction between the Imaginer and the imagination;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no real distinction between the Cause and Its effect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A poem and its words are one and the same;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no knowledge and no ignorance in the experience of Unity;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no near and no far in the experience of Unity;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no time and no eternity in the experience of Unity;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no space in the jar, or even a jar;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no container of the soul, or even a soul.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no separation between Cause and effect;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, in the realm of Unity, everyone is eternally free;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A “short time” and a “long time” have no meaning here.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, no distinction such as “fat” or “thin” exists;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here is neither Emptiness nor fullness;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here is neither purity nor impurity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here is neither the All nor its absence;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no distinction such as “divided” or “undivided”;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no distinction such as “within” or “without”;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Beyond the distinction of “enemy” or “friend,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no disciple or non-disciple in the one Reality;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no one evolving, and no one not-evolving;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, in the state of Unity, everyone is eternally free.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is beyond form and formlessness, is It not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is beyond division and non-division, is It not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is beyond creation and the absence of creation, is It not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither the gunas nor anything else can bind me;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How could I be bound by actions in this life or in the after-life?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m the pure, stainless Self, the same within all;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here is neither existence nor non-existence;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here is neither desire nor desirelessness;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, the wisdom that’s learned is freedom and equality;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, Reality is not divided into sub-realities (tattvas);</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here is neither union nor separation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Even if everything disappears, I’m the same Self in all;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not a vessel, a temple, a house, or a sheath;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, without association or dissociation, I am the supreme Reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, without knowledge or ignorance, I am the supreme Reality;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Unchanging? Changing? Neither is the truth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Purposeless? Purposeful? Neither is the truth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If only the Self is perceived: that is the truth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, everyone is the same conscious Soul;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, everyone is the one eternal Soul.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, only the one undivided Soul exists;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Indiscrimination? Discrimination? This is ignorance.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mindlessness? Mindfulness? This is ignorance.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If only the eternal One is seen: that is knowledge.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no state of liberation and no state of bondage;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no state of virtue, and no state of sin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no state of perfection and no state of imperfection;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If I’m always the same, beyond caste and castelessness;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If I’m always the same, beyond cause and effect;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If I’m always the same, beyond division and non-division;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, everything is eternal; everything is Consciousness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, only the Immutable exists; everything is Consciousness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Without any exception, everything is Consciousness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If everything is eternal, everything is myself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If only the Stainless, the Immutable, exists, everything is myself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Whether daytime or night-time, everything is myself;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither in bondage nor in freedom; I’m always the same.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m neither united nor separated; I’m always the same.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I possess neither knowledge nor ignorance; I’m always the same.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, time and timelessness cease to exist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, atoms and particles cease to exist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Only the absolute Reality never ceases to exist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here is no difference between embodied and bodiless;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To the Supreme, the subtle and gross states are the same.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Supreme is the same whether It’s named or unnamed;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The one Purity, like space, is equally in all;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Transcending all forms, I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Whether there are forms or no forms, the Essence remains the same;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, I’m unattracted to either virtue or vice;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, I’m unattracted to either form or formlessness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, I’m unattracted to either dispassion or desire;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Beyond pleasure and pain, I’m the same Self in all;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, neither sorrow nor gladness exists.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the supreme Reality, there is neither Guru nor disciple;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is neither substantial nor insubstantial;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is neither identical, nor not identical, to the world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s beyond both enquiry and abstention from enquiry;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This [Self] is the underlying Essence of every substance;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So how can you find distinctions in the one Existence?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no object of perception outside of Itself;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In many eloquent ways, the scriptures have said,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“This observable world’s like a desert mirage.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the eternal One, I’m the same Self in all;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why lament, then, O mind? I’m the same Self in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In that state where one knows nothing at all,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This versified knowledge does not even exist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, now, while I’m in the state of samarasa,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I, the Avadhut, have spoken of the supreme Absolute.</span></div>
Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110915202535467828.post-18548784571707795562010-03-24T18:13:00.002-07:002021-09-09T15:45:20.052-07:00Chapter Six<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In many eloquent ways the scriptures have said,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“This observable world’s like a desert mirage.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, and to what, could the Self be compared?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the Supreme there is neither division nor non-division;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the Supreme there is neither activity nor inactivity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What, then, is the need of austerities and rites?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The one Mind is infinite; It pervades everything.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the Supreme there is neither “without” nor “within.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The one Mind is, indeed, limitless; all is Shiva.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could Shiva be defined in thought or in speech?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no distinction between day and night;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no distinction between dawn and dusk.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What’s the difference if the Sun or the Moon shines?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s beyond the duality of desire and desirelessness;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s beyond the duality of action and non-action.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What, then, may be considered “without” or “within”?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">6.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If it’s neither with substance nor without substance,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If It’s neither a Void nor a non-Void,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could there be a beginning or an end?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">7.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s no distinction between division and non-division,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s no distinction between the knower and the known,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What, then, is the third mental state, and what is the fourth?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">8.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What can be spoken of is not the Reality;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither what can be spoken of nor what cannot be spoken of is the Reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there is only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can there be objects, or senses, the intellect or the mind?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither space nor air is the Reality;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither earth nor fire is the Reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Which, then, is the cloud and which is the rain?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">10.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s no distinction between a thought-image and the world,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s no distinction between a thought-image and the gods,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could there be a distinction between the Real and the unreal?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no distinction between the living and the dead;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There’s no distinction between alike and different.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could one speak of going or coming?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There isn’t any difference between Prakriti and Purusha;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There isn’t any difference between Cause and effect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could one speak of Purusha (the Self) or not-Purusha?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no childhood—the “third stage” of misery;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no infancy—the “second binding rope.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can there be old age, infancy, or childhood?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is it not true that there are no life-stages or castes?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is it not true that there are no causes or effects?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can one distinguish between the perishable and the Imperishable?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s futile to distinguish between the perishing and the Imperishable;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s futile to distinguish between the created and the Uncreated.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, can there be an Imperishable and a perishable</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The “male principle” (Purusha) and his consort do not exist;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The “female principle” (Prakriti) and her consort do not exist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could such a relationship exist?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">17.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If neither desire nor repulsion exist within the female principle,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If neither pleasure nor pain exist within the male principle,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, does this sense of “I” and “mine” arise?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">18.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither righteousness nor unrighteousness exist; right?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Neither bondage nor liberation exist; right?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, does the thought of sorrow or happiness arise here?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">19.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no distinction between the Giver and the gift;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no distinction between the Receiver of the sacrifice and the sacrifice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could there be rewards for one’s actions?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">20.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is free of both sorrow and pleasure, is It not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is free of both humility and pride, is It not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, does the thought of attachment or nonattachment arise?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">21.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the Self neither delusion nor non-delusion arises;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the Self neither desire nor desirelessness arises.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If there’s only the limitless One, all is Shiva;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can you think there is such a thing as indiscrimination or discrimination?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">22.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Look, there’s never even been a you or an I;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All talk about family or caste is untrue.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, I’m Shiva, the one supreme Self;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, should I worship? To whom should I bow?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">23.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The distinction between Guru and disciple proves illusory;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Guru’s instruction proves illusory as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, I’m Shiva, the one supreme Self;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, should I worship? To whom should I bow?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">24.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The division between bodies is only imagined;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The division between places is only imagined.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, I’m Shiva, the one supreme Self.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, should I worship? To whom should I bow?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">25.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There has never been any activity or rest;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The one Purity is stainless and motionless, is It not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, I’m Shiva, the one supreme Self;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, should I worship? To whom should I bow?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">26.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no distinction between “embodied” and “bodiless”;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Wrong action,” “right action”—neither exists.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, I’m Shiva, the one supreme Self;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, should I worship? To whom should I bow?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">27.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In that state where one knows nothing at all,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This versified knowledge doesn’t even exist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, now, while I’m in the state of samarasa,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I, the Avadhut, have spoken of the supreme Absolute.</span></div>
Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110915202535467828.post-8893144887018689532010-03-24T18:11:00.001-07:002021-09-09T15:44:41.740-07:00Chapter Seven<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To the Avadhut, who has no sense of pride or shame.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Naked, he sits in an empty shack,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Immersed in the pure, stainless bliss of the Self.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">His attainment is beyond attaining or non-attaining;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">His state is beyond that of union or separation;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He’s continually established in the one stainless Reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can the Avadhut either speak or not speak?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Free from bondage to the fetters of hope,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Free from the yoke of acceptable conduct,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Free from everything, he’s thus attained peace.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He is the stainless One, the pure Absolute.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">4.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For him, where is the question of being embodied or</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">bodiless?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where is the question of attachment or non- attachment?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Pure and unpartitioned as the infinite sky,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He is, Himself, the Reality in Its natural form.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">5.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where the Self is, how can there be any knowledge?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can there be either forms or the absence of forms?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where there is the Supreme, infinite as the sky,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can there be any differentiation of objects?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">6.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is undifferentiated, like the formless sky;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Self is the pure and stainless Reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For Him, how can there be difference or non-difference,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bondage or liberation, division or change?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">7.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is but one Reality: the undifferentiated All.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could there be union, separation, or pride of attainment here?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He is the Supreme, the undifferentiated All;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, how could there be any substance or nonsubstance?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">8.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Only the stainless, all-inclusive Reality exists;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is a clear, pure, and continuous Sky.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, how could association or dissociation occur?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the one Reality, how could there be any relationship or severance of relationship?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">9.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As a yogi, he is beyond union and separation;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As a bhogi (enjoyer), he is beyond enjoyment and non-enjoyment.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Thus, he wanders leisurely, leisurely,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">While in his mind arises the natural bliss of the Self.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">10.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How does one who is continuously bound here by knowledge and ignorance</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Become free of both duality and non-duality?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How does a yogi here become natural and desireless?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">By becoming aware that he’s the stainless Purity, the enjoyer of unchanging bliss.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">11.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Destroyer is beyond destruction and non-destruction;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Sustainer is beyond sustaining and non- sustaining.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Indeed, how could substance or the dissolution of substance exist here?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Reality is unchanging, like the formless sky.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">12.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Continuously united with, yet free from, everything,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The liberated are beyond all manifestation (tattvas).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Indeed, how could there be any birth or death here?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How can one here meditate on either forms or formlessness?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All this [world] is conjured by magic;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It’s only the water of a desert mirage.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Beyond all differences, beyond all forms,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Truly, there is only Shiva alone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">From the performance of duties to the attainment of liberation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">How, then, could those who profess wisdom imagine</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That we possess either attachment or non-attachment?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In that state where one knows nothing at all,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This versified knowledge doesn’t even exist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, now, while I’m in the state of samarasa,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I, the Avadhut, have spoken of the supreme Absolute.</span></div>
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