Tag: vishnudeva

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 76

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 76

    I am the limitless ocean of consciousness.  Although the appearance of the world arises in me, I remain formless and fully at peace.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 7:3
    Meditation

    Like water remaining inherently formless despite assuming various forms like waves, clouds or mist, I, consciousness, remain inherently formless despite assuming various forms such as the body, mind and world.  Untouched by these forms, I remain fully at peace.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 75

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 75

    I am infinite like space and the universe is like a jar, appearing in me but not limiting or dividing me in any way.  Knowing this, there is nothing to be renounced, accepted or destroyed. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 6:1
    Meditation

    The universe is a collection of mutually limiting objects that are subject to division and change.  But because the universe appears in me, consciousness-existence, like a jar appearing in space, I am not subject to the limitations or divisions of the ever-changing objects in any way.  I am ever-free and ever the same, in the presence or absence of objects.  What then needs to be renounced, accepted or destroyed?  All is well, just as it is.  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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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 72

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 72

    For me there is no mental action, good or bad.  For me there is no physical action, good or bad.  For me there is no verbal action, good or bad.  I am immortal consciousness, beyond the senses.
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:8
    Meditation

    I am immortal consciousness.  Mental, physical and verbal action (good and bad), along with the senses, are all revealed by my “light.”  Just as the light of a lamp is uninvolved with and unaffected by the objects it reveals, I am uninvolved with and unaffected by action and the senses.  OM.    

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