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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 81

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 81

    For me, the self, there is no state of freedom or bondage; no state of virtue or vice; no state of fullness or emptiness.  Dear mind, you are none other than me.  There is no reason to grieve.
    -Avadhuta Gita 5:19
    Meditation

    Dear mind, you seek freedom because you believe you are bound.  But you are not.  You seek to get good karma and avoid bad karma because you believe you are the ego and the body.  But you are not.  You seek to determine if your nature is full or empty because you believe you can be defined by abstract dualistic concepts such as “fullness” and “emptiness.”  But you cannot. 

    Dear mind, relax.  You are none other than me, the self.  There is no reason to grieve.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 80

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 80

    I am the limitless ocean of consciousness.  As the waves of the world arise and vanish, nothing is added to me or taken away. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 7:2
    Meditation

    Just as nothing can be added to infinity or subtracted from infinity, nothing can be added to me or subtracted from me.  In either the presence or absence of the illusory world, I am limitless consciousness.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 79

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 79

    For me who am ever liberated, pure, changeless, immortal and indestructible there is no hunger, thirst, grief, delusion, old age or death.  For I am bodiless and all pervasive like the either.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 13:3-4 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    The body appears in me, all-pervasive consciousness-existence, like an object appearing in space.  Just as space is untouched by the inherent defects of objects, I am untainted by the inherent defects of the body such as hunger, thirst, etc.  I do not need to be liberated from the body because I was never bound by it—for how could I be bound by an unreal appearance?  The unreal appearance called “body” is mortal and subject to destruction.  This much is obvious.  What is also obvious is that because I am unaffected by the appearance of the body, I immortal and indestructible.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 74

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 74

    Just as space pervades everything, I pervade space.  I am changeless, motionless, pure, ageless, ever-liberated, one without a second.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 12:19 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    Like space, I do not change, I do not move, I do not decay.  Like space, I am untainted and unencumbered by the objects that appear in me.  Like space, I am division-less and one without a second.  

    However, while all objects appear within space, space itself is an object that appears in me, consciousness-existence.  Further, while all objects depends on space to exist, space depends on me, existence itself, to exist.  The conclusion: I am ever-free—I depend on nothing to be the limitless reality that I am.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 73

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 73

    I am like the ocean and the universe is like the wave.  Knowing this, there is nothing to be renounced, accepted or destroyed. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 6:2
    Meditation

    The universe is but an illusory appearance of my own self.  Therefore I alone exist.  Since nothing other than myself exists, there is nothing available for me to accept, reject or destroy.  OM. 

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