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Tag: Advaita Vedanta

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 17

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 18

    That which has form is impermanent and unreal. I am formless, permanent and real. Knowing this, I am freed from death and rebirth.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:18
    Meditation

    The definition of real is: permanent and unchanging.  For how could something be real if it is here one moment and gone the next?  How could something be real if it is one thing one moment and something else the next?  By that definition, the body and mind cannot be real.  They are mere forms, continuously changing transient objects that are known to me.  Being unreal, they cannot be me.  Being known to me, they cannot be me.  Only the body and mind are subject to death and rebirth.  Knowing that I cannot be the body and mind, I recognize that I always have and always will be free from death and rebirth.  OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 15

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    Day 15

    I am not the body, which is a combination of material elements, nor am I a collection of the senses.  I am the self, different from both of these.
    Aparokshanubhuti V.13
    Meditation

    I am the self, as different from the body and senses as light from darkness.  How so? The body is insentient matter—but I am consciousness itself.  The senses know objects—but the senses themselves are objects to me, the conscious subject.  The body and senses come, go and change—but I, the witness of the body and senses, remain unchanged.  When gold assumes the form of a ring, its nature as gold remains unaffected.  Similarly, when I assume the form of the body and senses my nature as consciousness-existence remains unaffected.  I am the limitless self. OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 13

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 13

    I am brahman, the all-pervading limitless reality. Just as space exists inside and outside of a jar but is not limited by it, I exist inside and outside all things but I am not limited by them.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:20
    Meditation

    I am the all-pervasive, limitless reality. The body, mind and world appear in me but do not divide or limit me in any way, similar to the way a jar appears in space but does not limit divide or limit space in any way. I am brahman—I remain unchanged by the presence or absence of objects.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 12

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 12

    Virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, belong to the mind, not me, the all-pervading one. I am not the doer or enjoyer. I am ever free.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:6
    Meditation

    I am all-pervasive pure being—I exist everywhere at all times. How then could I be the mind which is limited to the body and subject to disappearance in deep sleep? That being so, I am free of the mind—I am unaffected by its various states such as virtue and vice, pleasure and pain. I am also untouched by the ego, the thought of “I” in the mind which claims the actions of the body-mind as its own. Because the ego is known to me, it cannot be me. Because the ego continuously vacillates between, “I did this” and “I am enjoying the results of my actions” it cannot be real. But I am real—the ever-present, unchanging, all-pervasive self. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 11

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 11

    I am not limited by the body, senses, or intellect. Good and bad karma do not affect me in the least. Old age and death, hunger and thirst, grief and delusion do not touch me. I am none other than pure consciousness, the ever-free.
    – Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangraha V.841
    Meditation

    I am pure consciousness. The body, senses and intellect are known to me so they cannot be me—nor can they limit me. Good and bad karma, old age and death pertain to the body—they do no pertain to me, pure consciousness. Hunger and thirst belong to the senses—they do not belong to me, pure consciousness. Grief and delusion affect the intellect—they do not affect me, pure consciousness. I am untouched by them all. I am ever-free. OM.

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