End Of Knowledge

Category: Steady Wisdom

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 36

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 36

    I am not subject to change—there is nothing available to cause a change in me since I am one without a second.  Merit and demerit, liberation and bondage, do not apply to me, and I do not belong to any caste since I am bodiless.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 10:6 Metrical
    Meditation

    I alone exist so there is nothing outside of myself that can affect a change in me.  Nor do I change internally because that which truly exists never changes.  For how can something be said to truly exist if it appears one moment and is gone the next like an object in a dream?  Or how can something be said to truly exist if it is one thing one moment and something else the next moment, like milk transforming into yogurt?  

    Because there is nothing other than myself, merit and demerit are mere illusion—I cannot be affected by an illusion.  Because I do not change I cannot be bound one moment and then liberated the next—I always have been, and always will be, free.  Because I am always the unchanging self, I am never the ever-changing body.  Therefore, society can never define me by the state or status of the body.  OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 35

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 35

    I am the limitless ocean of consciousness.  In me the wind of the mind produces the diverse waves of the world.  I remain unaffected. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 2:23
    Meditation

    The world appears as thought-waves in the ocean of the mind.  But the mind appears as a wave in me, the limitless ocean of consciousness.  The mind comes, goes and changes but I, consciousness, remain unchanged.  Therefore I am unaffected by the world. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 34

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 34

    Knowledge, the knower and what is known appear in me through ignorance alone.  I remain the untainted self. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 2:15
    Meditation

    First I thought, “I need knowledge of the self.”  Now I know, “I am the self.”  Realizing that I am the one true reality, where is knowledge, the knower and what is known?  I have always been the non-dual self, untainted by the appearance of duality and unaffected by self-ignorance. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 33

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 33

    I am not an object of the five senses nor do they belong to me.  I am the ultimate reality so there is no reason to grieve.
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:16
    Meditation

    As the Kena Upanishad says, “I am the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, the speech of speech, the breath of breath, the eye of the eye.”  For how can there be hearing, thinking, speech, breath or sight without me, pure consciousness?  As consciousness, I am not an object of the senses because the senses are objects known to me.  And as the ultimate reality, pure existence, the senses depend on me and not the other way around (for how can the senses exist without me, existence itself?).  Therefore, I am not afflicted by the suffering caused by the senses and I do not need the senses to be the limitless self I already am.  There is no reason to grieve. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 32

    Steady Widsom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 32

    I am not the ever-changing body and mind.  I am unchanging, non-dual consciousness.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:13
    Meditation

    It is undeniable that the body and mind change from year to year, day to day and moment to moment.  But how do I know this?  Because I am the consciousness that illuminates the body and mind.  Just as the sun is unchanged by the things it illuminates, I am unchanged by the body and mind.

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