End Of Knowledge

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 66

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 66

    There is no day or night in the sun because its very nature is light.  Similarly, there is no knowledge or ignorance in me since my very nature is consciousness, void of all distinctions. 
    -Upadesha Sahasri 17:66 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    The sun shines on the earth, making day and night possible.  But because its very nature is light, the sun remains unaffected by day and night. 

    The self shines on the mind, making ignorance and knowledge possible.  But because its very nature is consciousness, the self remains unaffected by ignorance and knowledge. 

    I am that self, void of all distinctions such as ignorance and knowledge.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 64

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 64

    The mind’s discriminating cognition, “I am the knower alone, never an object of knowledge, pure, eternally liberated” belongs to the intellect.  It is a transitory object known to me. 
    -Upadesha Sahasri 12:14 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    Self-ignorance, in the form of a thought such as the firm conviction “I am the body-mind” is an object known to me.  Self-knowledge, in the form of a thought such as the firm conviction, “I am the self” is also an object known to me.  Since it is clear that both self-ignorance and self-knowledge are objects known to me, I realize that I wasn’t deluded in the first place.  Nor am I now an enlightened.  I am, and always have been, the eternally liberated self (not that I was ever bound).  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 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 18

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 18

    Ever free from name, form and action, I am the self, the supreme brahman, one without a second.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 11:7 (Metrical)

    Meditation

     I am the self, the supreme brahman, one without a second.  Since I alone exist, how could I be anything other than myself?  The body-mind is merely a fleeting form described by an arbitrary name.  But I am the ever-present nameless reality that underlies all names and forms, myself defying all description–I cannot be the body-mind.  Because I am not the body-mind, I perform no actions and reap no results.  I have no karma.  I am the ever-free self. OM. 

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