End Of Knowledge

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 40

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 40

    I am unattached to objects, actionless, self-luminous and without any blemish. This is my true nature whether or not I practice meditation.  Thinking otherwise is bondage. 
    -Ashtavakra Samita 1:15
    Meditation

    I am the pure, self-evident, actionless consciousness that is unattached to the mind, regardless of what it does or does not do.  This always has been true and always will be true.  I was only ensnared by bondage because I believed otherwise. OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 39

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 39

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

    Everything that exists is me, existence itself.  And yet, I myself am not a thing.  Just as all clay pots are nothing but clay, the whole universe is nothing but me.  But just as clay is never truly a clay pot, I am never truly the universe or any part of it.  Therefore, I am free from samsara. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 38

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 38

    In my presence the sun does not shine, nor does the moon and stars, nor does lightning or fire.  When I shine, everything else follows.  By my light, all these are lighted.
    -Katha Upanishad 2.2.15
    Meditation

    I am pure consciousness.  Everything is illumined by my “light,” even the light of the sun, moon, stars, lightning and fire.  For how could the light of these be known without me, knowingess itself?  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 36

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 36

    I am not subject to change—there is nothing available to cause a change in me since I am one without a second.  Merit and demerit, liberation and bondage, do not apply to me, and I do not belong to any caste since I am bodiless.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 10:6 Metrical
    Meditation

    I alone exist so there is nothing outside of myself that can affect a change in me.  Nor do I change internally because that which truly exists never changes.  For how can something be said to truly exist if it appears one moment and is gone the next like an object in a dream?  Or how can something be said to truly exist if it is one thing one moment and something else the next moment, like milk transforming into yogurt?  

    Because there is nothing other than myself, merit and demerit are mere illusion—I cannot be affected by an illusion.  Because I do not change I cannot be bound one moment and then liberated the next—I always have been, and always will be, free.  Because I am always the unchanging self, I am never the ever-changing body.  Therefore, society can never define me by the state or status of the body.  OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 35

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 35

    I am the limitless ocean of consciousness.  In me the wind of the mind produces the diverse waves of the world.  I remain unaffected. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 2:23
    Meditation

    The world appears as thought-waves in the ocean of the mind.  But the mind appears as a wave in me, the limitless ocean of consciousness.  The mind comes, goes and changes but I, consciousness, remain unchanged.  Therefore I am unaffected by the world. 

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