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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 85

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 85

    I am the self, the essence from which the universe arises and into which it dissolves, like waves and foam arising and dissolving into the sea. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 2:34
    Meditation

    When waves arise from water and dissolve back into water, nothing is added or subtracted from the water—its nature as water remains completely unchanged.  And while the waves depend entirely on the water for their existence, the existence of water is completely independent of the existent of the waves.

    Similarly, when the universe arises from me, pure being, and dissolves back into me, nothing is added or subtracted from me—my nature as pure being remains completely unchanged.  And while the universe depends entirely on me, pure existence, for its illusory existence, I am completely independent of the illusory existence of the universe. 

    Therefore, let the universe come and go—I remain the same.  I do not depend on its illusory existence to be the limitless reality that I naturally am.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 82

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 82

    The body comes and goes. Since I am the self that neither comes nor goes, there is no reason to mourn. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 15:9
    Meditation

    The fact that I can say, “The body comes, goes and changes” proves that I, the witness of the body, do not come, go or change.  I must exist prior to the thought, “Here is the body” because if I came into existence along with the thought of the body I would be unaware of the thought’s previous non-existence owing to the fact that I too would have been previously non-existent (and therefore not present to recognize the arising of the thought of the body).  By the same logic, I must exist after any particular thought of the body otherwise I would disappear along with the thought (and therefore not be present to recognize the disappearance of that particular thought of the body). 

    Nor do I change when the body changes, such as when the body changes from childhood to adulthood.  Because if I were identical with the changing body, then when the childhood body changed into the adult body (and thus no longer existed) I too would no longer exist.  And a non-existence entity would not be present and able to say, “Now here is my adult body.”

    So unlike the body, I do not come, go or change.  I am ever-present and immutable.  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 79

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 79

    For me who am ever liberated, pure, changeless, immortal and indestructible there is no hunger, thirst, grief, delusion, old age or death.  For I am bodiless and all pervasive like the either.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 13:3-4 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    The body appears in me, all-pervasive consciousness-existence, like an object appearing in space.  Just as space is untouched by the inherent defects of objects, I am untainted by the inherent defects of the body such as hunger, thirst, etc.  I do not need to be liberated from the body because I was never bound by it—for how could I be bound by an unreal appearance?  The unreal appearance called “body” is mortal and subject to destruction.  This much is obvious.  What is also obvious is that because I am unaffected by the appearance of the body, I immortal and indestructible.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 78

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 78

    I am always the same, beyond lineage and social status.  I am always the same, beyond cause and effect.  I am always the same, beyond division and unity.  Dear mind, you are none other than me.  There is no reason to grieve.
    Avadhuta Gita 5:20
    Meditation

    Lineage and social status belong to the body.  But as consciousness, the witness of the body, I am beyond (unaffected by) lineage and social status because they are objects known to me.

    I am not a cause because the so-called “effect” of the body-mind and world are unreal appearances that upon investigation are none other than myself.  Since I alone exist, I cannot be divided.  If I cannot be divided, then I have no parts.  If I have no parts, then I cannot be a unity (collection) of parts.  I am existence itself, one without a second.  OM.    

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