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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 67

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 67

    I’m not affected by good or bad karma, bondage or liberation.  My nature is ever-free; there is no maya for me. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 4:6
    Meditation

    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. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 54

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 54

    I am free from impurities such as attachment.  I am not affected by the suffering of the body.  I am the self alone.
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:67
    Meditation

    I am the self alone and I alone exist.  I cannot be tainted by my own self and I cannot be attached to my own self as if it were a possession that belonged to me.  Therefore, I am ever-pure and unattached. OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 52

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 52

    I am neither the doer nor the enjoyer.  There is no karma for me, past or present.  I have no body nor is the body mine.  There is only me so what could be mine or not-mine?
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:66
    Meditation

    The doer and enjoyer is the ego, a thought in my mind that claims, “I am doing this” and “Now I am enjoying the results of my actions.”  Because the ego is a thought known to me, it cannot be me.  Because the ego comes and goes, it cannot be me.  The same applies to the body.  Because I am not the body that performs action, nor the ego that claims the results of action as its own, there is no karma for me, past or present.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 46

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 46

    I have no father, mother or family; I was never born nor will I die.  It cannot be said that I have affection or delusion.  I am ever-free by nature; there’s no illusion for me. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 4:21
    Meditation

    The body is born to a mother and father but I, the self, am not.  Rather, the body is “born” to me, pure existence.  As such, I am present and unaffected before the birth of the body and I remain present and unaffected after its death. 

    The mind suffers from affection and delusion but I, the self, do not.  Rather, the affection and delusion of the mind are “revealed” by me, pure consciousness.  Just as the sun is free of all that it illumines, so I am free of the mind.  There’s no illusion for me. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 43

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 43

    In truth there are no scriptures, no gods, no religious practices; there are no worlds; there are no paths to heaven or rebirth; there are no stages of life, no caste, no lineage.  There is only me, the highest reality.
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:34
    Meditation

    Although I appear to have been born at a particular place and time to a particular family, and although I appear to have worshipped God and done religious practices to purify my mind, the truth I have realized from the scriptures is that I alone exist—all else is ultimately illusory.  Thus, I followed the path, thinking it would lead to freedom.  But it merely led me to the recognition of the fact that I have always been free. OM.      

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