End Of Knowledge

Tag: Vedanta

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 101

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 101

    I’m not the knower, the known or knowledge.  I’m beyond the speech, mind and intellect.  I’m immortal consciousness, ever the same like space. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 3:17
    Meditation

    I am not known by the intellect (knower) as an object of knowledge.  I cannot be accurately described by speech, even with words such as “immortal consciousness.”  At best all I can say is that I am like space, that which accommodates all qualities and distinctions equally while itself being utterly free of all qualities and distinctions.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 100

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 100

    I have realized my own self, which is bliss and peace.  Even though living in this world I am never bound in any way or under any circumstances.
    -Dhyanasvarupam V.10
    Meditation

    I am the self.  I am “bliss” because I am free from the limitations of the illusory body-mind.  I am “peace” because I am never disturbed by the state of the illusory body-mind.  Even when the illusory body-mind continues to live in the equally illusory world, I am never affected in any way or under any circumstances.  “Bliss” and “peace” are my very nature.  OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 99

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 99

    I myself am that which is ever-calm, immutable, undivided, of the essence of limitless consciousness.  That alone is my true nature.
    -Paramahamsa Upanishad V.2
    Meditation

    I am limitless consciousness.  Therefore, I am calm when the mind is not; I am unchanging when the body-mind changes; I am undivided even when experience appears to be divided into subject and object.  This alone is my true nature. OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 97

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 96

    I am ever-pure.  In me there is no knower, no means of knowledge and no object of knowledge.  
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 20:8
    Meditation

    My non-dual nature is inviolable.  Divisions such as knower, known and knowledge can only appear in me through ignorance.  Realizing this, I need not seek myself as an object of knowledge because I am already myself.  I cannot be a knower because there is nothing outside of myself to be known.  I do not need to gain knowledge because I am the essence of all knowledge: consciousness-existence, one without a second.  OM.

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  • Self Inquiry For Tough Times

    When life is going smoothly, it’s easy to do self-inquiry and say, “I’m not the body.”  But what about when the going gets tough?  Am I able to maintain my poise and distinguish between myself and the body when it really counts? 

    It’s clear that at some point in time the body will die.  That’s as guaranteed as the sunrise and sunset so there’s not much point in being overly concerned about it.      

    Besides, if I’m consistently dedicated to self-inquiry then it should also be clear that while the body will surely die, I will not.  I am the eternal, ever-present, unchanging self.  I was never born so I will never die. 

    So instead of obsessing over the news, dwelling on political nonsense or indulging in fearful speculation, I bring my mind back to the knowledge that I am the self over and over again.  I remind myself that what will happen in the world will happen, regardless of whether I obsess over it or fear it.  But no matter what happens, I am always completely fine.  So while I’ll surely take the necessary precautions to protect my illusory body, I do it with with peace of mind, always remembering who I really am.  OM.