Tag: ashtavakra gita

  • 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: Week 11 Progress Check

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days Of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 77

    One who knows is neither happy nor miserable, neither attached nor unattached, neither liberated nor an aspirant for liberation.  They are neither this nor that.
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 18:96
    Meditation

    I am one alone, without a second.  I am beyond all pairs of opposites such as happy and miserable etc. because they do not truly exist.  If my mind is unshakably established in this knowledge, it is said to have steady wisdom.  But ironically, this knowledge shows that I myself am beyond wisdom, steady or otherwise—I am neither this nor that.  OM.   

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 76

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 76

    I am the limitless ocean of consciousness.  Although the appearance of the world arises in me, I remain formless and fully at peace.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 7:3
    Meditation

    Like water remaining inherently formless despite assuming various forms like waves, clouds or mist, I, consciousness, remain inherently formless despite assuming various forms such as the body, mind and world.  Untouched by these forms, I remain fully at peace.  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 73

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 73

    I am like the ocean and the universe is like the wave.  Knowing this, there is nothing to be renounced, accepted or destroyed. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 6:2
    Meditation

    The universe is but an illusory appearance of my own self.  Therefore I alone exist.  Since nothing other than myself exists, there is nothing available for me to accept, reject or destroy.  OM. 

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