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Steady Wisdom: Day 90

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Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

DAY 90

I cannot be purified by the practice of yoga.  I cannot be purified by destroying the mind.  I cannot be purified by a teacher’s instructions.  I am reality itself and purity is my nature. 
-Avaduta Gita 1:48
Meditation

I can only purify myself if I am contaminated.  I can only be contaminated if something other than myself exists to contaminate me.  But I alone exist. 

The body and mind can be purified through yoga.  The mind can be purified (destroyed) through meditation.  Ignorance can be purified by the teacher’s instructions.  But once the ignorance of my true nature is gone, I see that I have always been pure and nothing can change that.  OM.  

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Steady Wisdom: Day 71

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Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

DAY 71

I am pure, unchanging consciousness, always at peace.  I am unborn, action-less and free of the ego.
-Ashtavakra Samhita 15:13
Meditation

To say that action and the ego exist is to admit that they are objects known to me.  As consciousness itself I am the knower of objects but I myself am never an object.  Therefore, when the body and mind act, prompted by the desires of the ego, I remain pure, action-less and unchanged, like the sun remaining pure, action-less and unchanged despite illuminating the various activities of the world.  OM. 

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