Virtue and vice belong to the body-mind which appears in me, consciousness, like smoke appearing in space. Just as space is untouched by smoke, I am untouched by the virtue and vice of the body. OM.
Maya makes the impossible possible: it makes me, the ever-free self, appear to be the body-mind. When I take this appearance at face value, I believe I am subject to good and bad karma, bondage and liberation. But when I recognize maya as the illusion it is, I understand that I never have and never will be affected by good or bad karma. I see clearly that I cannot attain liberation because I was never bound. OM.
The sun shines on the earth, making day and night possible. But because its very nature is light, the sun remains unaffected by day and night.
The self shines on the mind, making ignorance and knowledge possible. But because its very nature is consciousness, the self remains unaffected by ignorance and knowledge.
I am that self, void of all distinctions such as ignorance and knowledge. OM.
The body-mind will surely die. But seeing as the body-mind is part and parcel of the illusory universe, its death is also illusory. What reason is there to fear an illusion?
Further, what does an illusion have to offer me? Similar to the way that food in a dream cannot satisfy hunger in the waking state, I cannot find satisfaction or security in the illusory world after I’ve awoken to my true nature as the absolute reality. OM.
Self-ignorance, in the form of a thought such as the firm conviction “I am the body-mind” is an object known to me. Self-knowledge, in the form of a thought such as the firm conviction, “I am the self” is also an object known to me. Since it is clear that both self-ignorance and self-knowledge are objects known to me, I realize that I wasn’t deluded in the first place. Nor am I now an enlightened. I am, and always have been, the eternally liberated self (not that I was ever bound). OM.
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