No Nonsense Non-duality
Like water remaining inherently formless despite assuming various forms like waves, clouds or mist, I, consciousness, remain inherently formless despite assuming various forms such as the body, mind and world. Untouched by these forms, I remain fully at peace. OM.
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.
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.
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.
The eyes see the world but they are free of what they see. Seeing a yellow bird, they do not themselves become yellow. The mind sees the eyes but it is ever-free of the eyes. When they become blind, the mind does not become blind. I, consciousness, see the mind but I am ever-free of the mind. Even when the mind believes it is bound, I am not bound. For how can I be bound if the thought of bondage is known to me?
End Of Knowledge 