End Of Knowledge

Tag: Swami Paramarthananda

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 52

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 52

    I am neither the doer nor the enjoyer.  There is no karma for me, past or present.  I have no body nor is the body mine.  There is only me so what could be mine or not-mine?
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:66
    Meditation

    The doer and enjoyer is the ego, a thought in my mind that claims, “I am doing this” and “Now I am enjoying the results of my actions.”  Because the ego is a thought known to me, it cannot be me.  Because the ego comes and goes, it cannot be me.  The same applies to the body.  Because I am not the body that performs action, nor the ego that claims the results of action as its own, there is no karma for me, past or present.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 47

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 47

    I am immutable, formless and unperturbed consciousness.  I am unaffected by the appearance of the body and mind. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 1:17
    Meditation

    What reveals the forms of the body and mind?  Me, pure consciousness. Does consciousness assume the forms that it illuminates?  No, therefore I am formless.  Is consciousness perturbed by the forms it illuminates?  No, therefore I am unaffected by the appearance of the body and mind. OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 44

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 44

    My nature is pure consciousness.  The body, heaven and hell, bondage and freedom are merely imagined through ignorance. They do not affect me. There is nothing to fear. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 2:20
    Meditation

    Knowing that I am the self, I need not seek heaven nor fear hell.  I need not seek freedom nor fear bondage.  They are all illusory appearances of me, pure consciousness, similar to the way a dream is an illusory appearance of the mind of a dreamer.  Just as a dreamer is not affected by its dreams, I am not affected by the illusory appearance of heaven, hell, freedom and bondage.  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 34

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 34

    Knowledge, the knower and what is known appear in me through ignorance alone.  I remain the untainted self. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 2:15
    Meditation

    First I thought, “I need knowledge of the self.”  Now I know, “I am the self.”  Realizing that I am the one true reality, where is knowledge, the knower and what is known?  I have always been the non-dual self, untainted by the appearance of duality and unaffected by self-ignorance. 

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