End Of Knowledge

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 22

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 22

    I am beyond all suffering; I am different from the three bodies; I am the witness of the three states.  I am the immortal, changeless self.
    – Brahma Jnanavali V.16
    Meditation

    To whom does suffering belong?  The physical and mental bodies alone.  When do the physical and mental bodies appear?  In the waking and dreaming states alone.  Because I am the ever-present, unchanging conscious witness of the waking and dream states, I cannot be the physical or mental bodies that appear within them.  Therefore, I am free of all suffering. OM.            

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 20

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 20

    I am immutable and indivisible.  For me there is no action or inaction, no bondage or liberation.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 20:12
    Meditation

    Action and inaction depend on the division between the doer and the action itself.  But I am indivisible–there is no action or inaction for me.  Bondage and liberation depend on a change from one state to the next.  But I immutable–there is no bondage or liberation for me.  I am the non-dual, action-less and changeless self. OM.    

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 19

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 19

    I am ever-pure.  For me there is no body, mind or senses; there is no world but there is no nothingness.  I have no reason to despair. 
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 20:1
    Meditation

    There is no world insofar as it is an illusion.  But does that mean there is only nothingness?  No, because the body, mind and senses are a plain fact of my everyday experience—their existence, although illusory, cannot be denied.  I am their very essence, existence itself.  The body, mind and senses are merely waves in the limitless ocean of myself.  Just as water is untainted by waves, I am untainted by the body, mind and senses:  I am ever-pure.  Because I cannot be touched by the body, mind and senses, there is no reason to despair. OM.   

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 16

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    Day 16

    I have neither mother nor father nor children.  I was never born nor will I ever die.  The mind does not belong to me.  I am the absolute reality, always steady, never agitated.  I am immortal consciousness, ever the same like space. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 3:22
    Meditation

    The illusory body has a mother and a father—this is true.  But to say that I, immortal consciousness, have a mother and father?  That is false. I am existence itself, absolute reality, and whatever truly exists always has and always will exist.  So I cannot come into being—I have always been.  Therefore I was never born. 

    The illusory body begets children—this is also true.  But to say that I, immortal consciousness, beget children?  That is also false.  I am existence itself, absolute reality.  I am one without a second, for what could exist but existence itself?  There is none other than me so nothing can truly arise or descend from me.  And that includes the mind; like the body it is merely illusion.  As such I am never subject to its wavering or agitation.  Like space, I remain steady and ever the same. OM.     

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 14

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 14

    This is the absolute truth: I am neither gross nor subtle; I neither come nor go; I have no beginning, middle or end; there is no higher or lower in me. I am immortal consciousness, ever the same like space.
    – Avadhuta Gita 3:6
    Meditation

    I am neither a physical object like the body nor a mental object like a thought. Unlike them, I neither come nor go, I neither begin nor end. Instead, I am ever-present as their immortal witness, consciousness itself. And yet, like space, there are no divisions in me: no higher and lower, real and unreal, subject and object, knower and known. In truth, I am non-dual reality and all appearance of difference in me is falsehood. As such, I take the various states of the body-mind in stride, recognizing them for the illusory objects they are.

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