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  • Steady Wisdom: 12 Week Progress Check

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 84 

    Arjuna said, “What is the description of the person with steady wisdom, whose mind abides in the self?”
    Krishna said, “When, like a turtle that withdraws its limbs, this person is able to completely withdraw the sense organs from their objects, his knowledge is steady.”
    -Bhagavad Gita 2:54 & 58
    Meditation

    When a person is able to withdraw their sense organs from objects, they are said to have steady wisdom.  There is no objection here.  But because I am not a person, nor do I admit the reality of the senses and their objects, how can I, the non-dual self, have steady wisdom?  As the one, unchanging reality, steadiness is my nature, not something I gain from a particular state of mind.  OM.      

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 83

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 83

    I have no attributes.  I am action-less, eternal, ever-free and indestructible.  I am not the body which is unreal. 
    -Aparokshanubhuti V.27
    Meditation

    This much is obvious: The body possesses attributes such as tallness, shortness, thinness, fatness etc.; the body performs action; the body is subject to beginning and end, to creation (birth) and destruction (death). 

    This much is also obvious:  Because the body is an ever-changing collection of attributes that has a beginning and end, it is unreal; I am reality itself so I cannot be the body; further, I am the knower of the unreal body so for this reason too, I cannot be the body.

    My firm conviction is: Because I am not the body, I am not bound by it; I am not defined or limited by its attributes; I perform no action whatsoever; I have no beginning, no end and I cannot be changed.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 82

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 82

    The body comes and goes. Since I am the self that neither comes nor goes, there is no reason to mourn. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 15:9
    Meditation

    The fact that I can say, “The body comes, goes and changes” proves that I, the witness of the body, do not come, go or change.  I must exist prior to the thought, “Here is the body” because if I came into existence along with the thought of the body I would be unaware of the thought’s previous non-existence owing to the fact that I too would have been previously non-existent (and therefore not present to recognize the arising of the thought of the body).  By the same logic, I must exist after any particular thought of the body otherwise I would disappear along with the thought (and therefore not be present to recognize the disappearance of that particular thought of the body). 

    Nor do I change when the body changes, such as when the body changes from childhood to adulthood.  Because if I were identical with the changing body, then when the childhood body changed into the adult body (and thus no longer existed) I too would no longer exist.  And a non-existence entity would not be present and able to say, “Now here is my adult body.”

    So unlike the body, I do not come, go or change.  I am ever-present and immutable.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 81

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 81

    For me, the self, there is no state of freedom or bondage; no state of virtue or vice; no state of fullness or emptiness.  Dear mind, you are none other than me.  There is no reason to grieve.
    -Avadhuta Gita 5:19
    Meditation

    Dear mind, you seek freedom because you believe you are bound.  But you are not.  You seek to get good karma and avoid bad karma because you believe you are the ego and the body.  But you are not.  You seek to determine if your nature is full or empty because you believe you can be defined by abstract dualistic concepts such as “fullness” and “emptiness.”  But you cannot. 

    Dear mind, relax.  You are none other than me, the self.  There is no reason to grieve.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 80

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 80

    I am the limitless ocean of consciousness.  As the waves of the world arise and vanish, nothing is added to me or taken away. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 7:2
    Meditation

    Just as nothing can be added to infinity or subtracted from infinity, nothing can be added to me or subtracted from me.  In either the presence or absence of the illusory world, I am limitless consciousness.  OM. 

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