Ashtavakra Gita : contemplations on random verses
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“You are not earth, water, fire or air Nor are you empty space Liberation is to know yourself as Awareness alone the Witness of these” As the kundalini ascends From root to sacral to plexus to heart Either straight up or through bends Even as breath flows in and does depart There are stirrings within from a source enigmatic We see no difference between form & formlessness And whilst within form we are enlivened & ecstatic We feel within our heart the Absolute awareness We know too at this stage of energy centres above Which may endow us with enhanced enableability Yet having awakened at the heart we know only love Our awareness as love is our being in certainty Knowing love alone our awareness thus free flowing Observing & witnessing happenings upon earth We are as we are in sync with love so blossoming With blissful joy and an equal eye in bubbling mirth Epilogue: What’s love got to do with witnessing & liberation one may ask Well says the witness when we truly know ourself and so align The knowing is in the warmth of divine love within which we bask Both receiving & transmitting exalted pulsations of the Divine *** |
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1.18 “That which has form is not real Only the formless is permanent Once this is known you will not return to illusion” A koan, a quiz Let us begin by saying it like it is We bleed, we experience pain We live through loss & gain If a dream within a dream ad infinitum The dream is real within the continuum Beginning thus with a contrary view Let us rotate polarity to live anew Thought rested in intuitive stillness The external replaced with Divine connectedness As oscillations slow down Fears & desires drown There is felt within a definite consciousness shift Magnetism within rising that does uplift The essence of our being at the core Enlivening us with ineffable bliss we never felt before Our being-ness thus in permanence in stillness Whereupon we recognise the eternal attribute of formlessness The external being ephemeral The internal being eternal *** |
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1.19 “Just as a mirror exists both within and without the image reflected, the Supreme Self exists both within and without the body” 1.20 “Just as the same space exists both within and without a jar, the timeless, all-pervasive One exists as Totality” Our mandate In stillness sedate Is not knowledge vicarious But direct knowing sagacious It may be affirmed As of our knowing confirmed That He Himself in our heart resides As well as in all space outside & inside The knowing thus not by any doing But by Divine grace the vision so bestowing By a boundless loving osmotic percolation Within & without form in our meditation Our form has grid lines along which energy moves No doubt wondrous as it pulsates through these grooves Yet the heart centre alone is unfettered & free For from therein God Himself graces us in continuity *** |
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2.21 “I see no differences or separation Even the multitudes appear as a single formless desert To what should I cling?” 2.22 “I am not the body I do not have a body I am Awareness, not a person My thirst for life bound me to a seeming of life” As we make our daily entrée In our seeing what do we see Searching for happiness we sweat & toil Yet each fleeting joy, suffering does foil Comes a time we tire of chasing the rainbow Looking within we truly wish to know The realisation then is simply this Divine love alone renews unending bliss Rejecting then as unreal all forms fleeting We embrace dynamic stillness as the Divine pulse beating The One dividing Itself into two as Self & self Love multiplying exponentially pouring Itself into itself Everything energy and energy vibration Doing nothing we ascend by simply being in resonation In renewal of unending continuation *** |
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3.07 “Strange that knowing lust as an enemy of knowledge, one so weak and nearing death should still crave sensual pleasure” 3.13 “Why should a person of steady mind, who sees the nothingness of objects, prefer one thing to another?” 3.14 “He who is unattached, untouched by opposites, free of desire, experiences neither pleasure nor pain as events pass through” Ah! Reading verse three point seven Words of wisdom flowing from heaven The clue seen by very few Is that we may engage in pleasure if we renew Renew renew renew our free flowing attention Avoiding at all times indulgence & stagnation Moving on to verses thirteen & fourteen We see that it are weeds of ferality we need to wean Recognising that fear & desire imagery Are ego contaminants of delusion & memory Let events unfold and karma play its role What matters images moving as long as we are whole *** |
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5.1 “You are immaculate, touched by nothing. What is there to renounce? The mind is complex—let it go Know the peace of dissolution” 5.2 “The universe arises from you like foam from the sea Know yourself as One Enter the peace of dissolution” 5.3 “Like an imagined snake in a rope the universe appears to exist in the immaculate Self but does not Seeing this you know: “There is nothing to dissolve.” 5.4 “You are perfect, changeless, through misery and happiness, hope and despair, life and death This is the state of dissolution” Consciousness upside down Tail wagging the dog Are we in a circus as a clown Or simply lost in the fog We ourselves create the bubble The bubble of delusion Stagnation causing our troubles Imbalanced and in confusion The mind an instrument That should do our bidding But the ego glue contaminant Blocks the Divine within us vibrating So use thought by all means As and when needed For mundanity to glean Thereafter let its cries go unheeded The Universe and we are One in interconnectedness Just as in-form consciousness may expand to higher awareness If we quieten promptings external in a continuum of stillness No renunciation needed for all we possess is joy of wellness As for the famous snake and rope illusion We simply follow the scent Choosing expansion & rejecting contraction avoid delusion Ensuring our ascent Emotions rise and fall As well as change colouration Unabating bliss within being the all We sidestep ego precipitation There is no doing and yet the doing is done All coordinates on the Ferris wheel holding equal appeal Shedding conditioning of our past aligned with the Divine as one Our heart awakens as we begin to feel The shift within an automatic happening We stand still in an orientation of allowing In being becoming and slowly blossoming Elixirous in the flow the Divine nectar imbibing In a flow unending *** |
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8.4 “When there is no “I” there is only liberation When “I” appears bondage appears with it Knowing this, it is effortless to refrain from accepting and rejecting” ’I’ as in i-dentity Not the ‘I’ as in i-infinity The doer Not the mover With this knowing Let our contemplation keep flowing Bondage however is not in the doing Rather in indulgence resulting in stagnating If we choose to seamlessly embrace-hold-release With nonchalant ease We become like Krishna in midst of lovely maidens many Dancing in ecstasy yet not attached to any This verse too imparts this knowing Distancing from both accepting & rejecting For any action that be not in effortlessness Is ego manifest in serpentine surreptitiousness Looking a little deeper what does this entail What should be the attribute to effortlessly sail Flowing in the timeless here & now continuum We find ourselves at the fulcrum of the awareness pendulum The periphery moves but we are not there Although we witness its movement in darkness & the glare All images unreal and yet we engage In but not of the world as would a sage *** |
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9.1 “Opposing forces, duties done and left undone— when does it end and for whom? Considering this, be ever desireless, let go of all things, and to the world turn an indifferent eye” 9.3 “Seeing all things as threefold suffering, the sage becomes still Insubstantial, transient, contemptible-- the world is fit only for rejection” Sacrilege but we beg to differ Based upon what we do infer Detachment not indifference Why anaesthetise sentience Celebration not rejection Exuberance not dejection Pain may be but suffering imaginal If we feel it is real not conjectural As for the rest and reading between the lines We do divine That being not the doer there is no doing In dynamic stillness too the Divine alone is moving If we are here it is of our own choosing Let our stillness then be our consciousness so accepting Surrendering the illusionary ephemeral to the flow Erasing negativity within to reveal our presence aglow In stillness slow *** |
10.8
“For how many lifetimes have you done hard and painful labor with body, mind and speech? It is time to stop” Ah! This entreaty It has this ring of compassionate divinity Emanating from a true seer moved by our plight Enmeshed in delusion oblivious to the light We are already free but we choose to indulge in illusion We know our conscience is real but are addicted to delusion Fear of freedom keeping us bound So we reincarnate again & again upon this ground The reality is simple in that we co-create A partner in crime with the ego that agitates Misaligning our attention blocking the divine connection Reclaimable instantly in stillness of meditation *** |
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11.6 ““I am not the body, nor is the body my possession— I am Awareness itself.” One who realizes this for certain has no memory of things done or left undone. There is only the Absolute.” We now enter still waters deep Rejecting all knowledge we so far chose to keep The reason we invariably tend to self destruct Is owing to sole dependence upon the mind body construct Whilst we are endowed with the power of discrimination We choose to be blind to reality being caught up in stagnation Though knowing that in this world of duality everything has polarity Only the few detached rotate images viewing their sphericality Simply stated to exit the evident confinement We need to bring about inner alignment In thought & word & deed Employing the mind-body as our steed First we must recognise the coordinates of reference Before plotting path of preference Let us then begin by taking the opposing view That the mind body is the all with thought senses & sinews We immediately see that it is a cage bound in narrowness and limitation Our divine connection through conscience promising boundless bliss & elation Seeing this polarity we have on one hand the external ephemeral And on the other the unknown but seemingly limitless internal eternal We know we are awareness independent of senses and thought But we are now swamped by fears & desires all ego begot Our dilemma then akin to a drug addict In denial of truth even if succinct Awareness survives death of bodily form As does Divine Love felt within as magnetism warm The truth then clear yet the realisation elusive For as long as we dwell in symbols and illusions allusive No sooner we choose to internalise our consciousness We reclaim our freedom as formless awareness All we need to do is to use our free will To exit delusion by keeping our attention still Allowing our cup of joy to overspill *** |
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