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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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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 75

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 75

    I am infinite like space and the universe is like a jar, appearing in me but not limiting or dividing me in any way.  Knowing this, there is nothing to be renounced, accepted or destroyed. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 6:1
    Meditation

    The universe is a collection of mutually limiting objects that are subject to division and change.  But because the universe appears in me, consciousness-existence, like a jar appearing in space, I am not subject to the limitations or divisions of the ever-changing objects in any way.  I am ever-free and ever the same, in the presence or absence of objects.  What then needs to be renounced, accepted or destroyed?  All is well, just as it is.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 74

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 74

    Just as space pervades everything, I pervade space.  I am changeless, motionless, pure, ageless, ever-liberated, one without a second.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 12:19 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    Like space, I do not change, I do not move, I do not decay.  Like space, I am untainted and unencumbered by the objects that appear in me.  Like space, I am division-less and one without a second.  

    However, while all objects appear within space, space itself is an object that appears in me, consciousness-existence.  Further, while all objects depends on space to exist, space depends on me, existence itself, to exist.  The conclusion: I am ever-free—I depend on nothing to be the limitless reality that I am.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 69

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 69

    Just as objects made of clay are nothing but clay, the whole universe is nothing but me.  Thus proclaims Vedanta.
    -Brahma Jnanavali V.19
    Meditation

    I am pure being, the “clay” to which the universe owes its existence.  Just as all objects made of clay are nothing but clay, the universe is nothing but me.  And just as clay remains clay despite the appearance of clay objects, I remain pure being despite the appearance of the universe.  OM. 

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