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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 71

    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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  • Steady Wisdom: Week 10 Progress Check

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 70

    Arjuna said, “What is the description of the person with steady wisdom, whose mind abides in the self?”
    Krishna said, “The one who is unattached in all situations, who neither rejoices on gaining the pleasant nor hates the unpleasant, his knowledge is well established.”
    -Bhagavad Gita 2:54 & 57
    Meditation

    I am the self, one without a second.  Nothing other than me exists so there is nothing for me to be attached to.  The mind (and all of its states) are falsely superimposed on to me so when the mind rejoices I do not rejoice; when the mind hates, I do not hate; when the mind becomes established in knowledge, I do not become established in knowledge.

    Ironically, a mind with steady wisdom negates the possibility that I myself have steady wisdom.  Why? Because it shows that I am reality itself, free of the mind, free of all qualities and distinctions.  OM.

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