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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 22

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 22

    I am beyond all suffering; I am different from the three bodies; I am the witness of the three states.  I am the immortal, changeless self.
    – Brahma Jnanavali V.16
    Meditation

    To whom does suffering belong?  The physical and mental bodies alone.  When do the physical and mental bodies appear?  In the waking and dreaming states alone.  Because I am the ever-present, unchanging conscious witness of the waking and dream states, I cannot be the physical or mental bodies that appear within them.  Therefore, I am free of all suffering. OM.            

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 20

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 20

    I am immutable and indivisible.  For me there is no action or inaction, no bondage or liberation.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 20:12
    Meditation

    Action and inaction depend on the division between the doer and the action itself.  But I am indivisible–there is no action or inaction for me.  Bondage and liberation depend on a change from one state to the next.  But I immutable–there is no bondage or liberation for me.  I am the non-dual, action-less and changeless self. OM.    

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 19

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 19

    I am ever-pure.  For me there is no body, mind or senses; there is no world but there is no nothingness.  I have no reason to despair. 
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 20:1
    Meditation

    There is no world insofar as it is an illusion.  But does that mean there is only nothingness?  No, because the body, mind and senses are a plain fact of my everyday experience—their existence, although illusory, cannot be denied.  I am their very essence, existence itself.  The body, mind and senses are merely waves in the limitless ocean of myself.  Just as water is untainted by waves, I am untainted by the body, mind and senses:  I am ever-pure.  Because I cannot be touched by the body, mind and senses, there is no reason to despair. OM.   

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 18

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 18

    Ever free from name, form and action, I am the self, the supreme brahman, one without a second.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 11:7 (Metrical)

    Meditation

     I am the self, the supreme brahman, one without a second.  Since I alone exist, how could I be anything other than myself?  The body-mind is merely a fleeting form described by an arbitrary name.  But I am the ever-present nameless reality that underlies all names and forms, myself defying all description–I cannot be the body-mind.  Because I am not the body-mind, I perform no actions and reap no results.  I have no karma.  I am the ever-free self. OM. 

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  • 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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