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Tag: Self-Inquiry

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 33

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 33

    I am not an object of the five senses nor do they belong to me.  I am the ultimate reality so there is no reason to grieve.
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:16
    Meditation

    As the Kena Upanishad says, “I am the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, the speech of speech, the breath of breath, the eye of the eye.”  For how can there be hearing, thinking, speech, breath or sight without me, pure consciousness?  As consciousness, I am not an object of the senses because the senses are objects known to me.  And as the ultimate reality, pure existence, the senses depend on me and not the other way around (for how can the senses exist without me, existence itself?).  Therefore, I am not afflicted by the suffering caused by the senses and I do not need the senses to be the limitless self I already am.  There is no reason to grieve. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 29

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 29

    I have no body nor am I bodiless.  I have no mind, intellect or senses.  It cannot be said that I am either attached or unattached.  My nature is ever-free; there’s no illusion for me. 
    – Avadhuta Gita 4:12
    Meditation

    There is no illusion for me; despite the appearance of the body and mind I know I am pure being, reality itself.  Just because I have no body does not mean I am bodiless.  Just because objects cannot attach themselves to me (affect me) does not mean I am unattached.  Embodied and bodiless, attached and unattached are dualistic opposites.  I am non-dual so I transcend them all.  I am ever-free.   

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 26

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    Day 26

    The succession of sufferings pertaining to the body, senses and intellect is other than myself and does not belong to me because it is unreal like a dream beheld by a dreamer. I am changeless.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 10: 5 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    The body and mind are a succession of temporary forms that arise in me, pure being, like a series of images arising from the mind of a dreamer. Because the body and mind come and go, they cannot be real. Because I am changeless existence, ever-present as the essence of everything, I am real. Therefore I cannot be the body and mind. Since suffering pertains to the body and mind alone, I am free of all suffering.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 25

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 25

    As waves are only water and copper pots only copper, the universe is me alone. 
    – Aparokshanubhuti V.63
    Meditation

    As consciousness I cannot be any part of the universe that appears in me.  But as existence every part of the universe is myself.  Like waves to water and pots to copper, everything is me but I am no thing.  I am limitless.     

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 24

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 24

    I am undifferentiated and formless like the sky.  I am the pure and stainless reality.  For me there is no division or non-division; no bondage, liberation or change.
    – Avadhuta Gita 7:6
    Meditation

    Owing to a trick of the eyes and impurities in the air, the formless and colorless sky falsely appears to be blue and shaped like a dome.  Similarly, owing to ignorance of my true nature, the pure and stainless reality that is myself appears to be the body-mind.  But like the sky I have no divisions nor am I a collection of parts:  I am one alone.  Because there is nothing other than myself, there is nothing to bind me.  Because I am never bound, I cannot be liberated.  I am the undifferentiated, changeless self.  OM.   

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