Ashtavakra Gita : contemplations on random verses

[Unseeking Seeker]

Verse Post #3, revisited on 23-October-2021

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”

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The starting point is to rest mind
Ego recedes, leaving thoughts behind
That that remains is a stillness continuum
Consciousness aglow at mind-body sensorium
Whereupon we meld with the bliss current
God’s boundless energy omnipresent
At the optimal time, touched by His hand
We become the oneness itself to understand
That God alone is, in-dwelling each form
He is the life as magnetic heat warm
Both void and manifestation, His essence
Our innate aliveness, in truth is but God’s presence
Clear truth known if we become a rippleless lake
When head-heart align with love, we awake
Our earth life purpose is then fulfilled
Bliss and wisdom within instilled

[Unseeking Seeker]

Verse post #4, revisited on 24-October-2021

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”

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When we, this feeble mind-body entity
Exit stagnation, reclaiming tranquil serenity
Slowly, the false drops away, we cease to sway
We are ensconced in blissful rapture, night and day
Our hollowed out form becomes pure and empty
Magnetised by thunderous bliss in continuity
We slowly recognise interconnectedness
Knowing by grace underlying oneness

Here, within this reflected universe
Divine aligned, we sing the love verse
Identity vaporised, fears and desires cease
Devoid of attachments, we flow like the breeze
In but not of this world, as a beacon of love and light
We see everything through nonjudgmental sight
In childlike trust accepting life flow as it is
Aglow within the throbbing bliss fizz

We seek neither material nor ethereal
There is nothing here, save the divine miracle
Each coordinate of the Ferris wheel has equal appeal
Only that that does not come and go, being real
We play out our earth role in as ordained
Unfettered, unbound, soul unstained

[Unseeking Seeker]

Verse post #5, revisited on 25-October-2021

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”


Taking inspiration from the enlightened sage
Even whilst lower and higher minds battles wage
We have on the one hand animal cravings of a ghoul
Whilst on the other, divine impulse that makes us feel whole
Thus recognising our feeling of mind-body ferality
We rotate sense polarity to reclaim serenity
For to imbibe wisdom in definitiveness
We must merge in totality with That oneness
Whereupon though we know, there is oscillation
Between equanimous meditation and turbid agitation
In timeless time, boundaries between form and void blur
Head and heart aligned, melds with love, as nodes within stir
Responding to ego cravings as of body need, not greed
Priority shifts to love and light as bliss throbs breed
Whereupon though we renounce not any delight
Each act is surrendered to God day and night
By consciousness transmutation we become free
Breezing nonchalantly through life in our each entrée
In time stretched stillness moment by moment, love entwined
Following the scent of love and playing out earth role as assigned

[Unseeking Seeker]

Verse Post #6, revisited on 25-October-2021

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”


Simply stated
Our heart elated
In time stretched stillness
Melding with the That oneness
We recognise that the one is in all
Thereby desires dissolve in a bliss squall
Here, within this reflected universe
Our soul sings the love verse
Even as life dream plays
Bliss in our heart stays

The aspect that seeks
Is ego full of energy leaks
A bubble of thought imaginary
So we abide in silence sedentary
Moment to moment, thus divine entwined
Living life internally, thus nothing to be divined
Vaporising lower mind, becoming a bliss mist
Imbibing soma nectar by ceasing to resist
Mind-body empty shell magnetised
In timeless time, God realised

[Unseeking Seeker]

Post #7, Verse revisited on 27-October-2021

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”


When we be in a continuum of silence
Thought rested stillness, vibrant innocence
Identity disappears, the void and we become one
Likewise, when lovers entwine hearts, ego comes undone
As also when we’re transfixed by a sunset beauteous
Rise of mellow blissful joy currents is fortuitous
We are, at that time, in our native element
Devoid of ego thought sediment

Employing thought as an instrument
Default fulcrum the vibrant bliss current
Heart centric, as we so align with love divine
Essence of presence for God-connect does pine
Empty mind-body shell, is by bliss magnetised
Resting judgment, nothing weighed or sized
Flows like the breeze with effortless ease
Hermit mode, embrace and release

[Unseeking Seeker]

Post #8 Verse revisited on 29-October-2021

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”


Earth life manifests sharp contrast
Leaving even fearless hearts aghast
We are here to energise our potential
That we may conjure our love parable
For in the domain of light our soul rests
Facing adversity triumph earth life tests
On reaching exhaustion get to recognition
That desire cessation pathway to liberation
So ceasing thinking, we meld head and heart
In the void of stillness we feel bliss ignition start
Our emptiness magnetised by bliss in fullness
In time time we merge with the That oneness
We are then in but not of the external world
In silence we celebrate as soul is unfurled
Spiritual heart, here now within our form
Enlivened by divine bliss currents warm
Layer by layer we see identity vaporise
In boundless measure does bliss rise
Negating nothing exiting stagnation
Flow of life itself is our meditation

[Unseeking Seeker]

Post #9, Verse 10:8 revisited on 01-November-2021

10:8
“For how many lifetimes
have you done hard and painful labor
with body, mind and speech?
It is time to stop”


Shhh! Read this one and pause
For it is wisdom discerning the cause
Of our suffering, feeling of incompleteness
Arising from wayward stuporousness
Truth this: we are not mind -body
Fears and desires shoddy

Let’s admit we have a split personality
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde rotating in continuity
Ego driven lower mind fuels cravings of the flesh
Spiralling thought forms that freedom enmesh
Whilst conscience whispers love vibrations
If we listen, we awaken bliss sensations

Silence and stillness shows us the way
In tranquil thought rested awareness we pray
Oscillations slow down, vibrant is our soul presence
We reclaim innate innocence and luminescence
Empty mind body vessel, with love resonates
Each node within form, to bliss gyrates

We are a receptor and God the doer
The doing is all done so let’s move slower
We are as He so in truth there is no separation
Reality of oneness recognised in deep meditation
Oh hermit, this dream life is a reflected reality
Womb of silence reveals truth in clarity

Path simple; just align head with heart
When desires cease, bliss ignition does start
Consciousness is then in but yet not of the world
As moment by moment we see bliss unfurled
We shine in full glory as the living light
Obtaining by grace, spherical sight

[Unseeking Seeker]

Post #10, Verse 11.6 revisited on 08-November-2021

“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.”


Innate vibrant bubbling innocence
Dwelling in fleeting world of transience
Oscillates awhile between joy and sorrow
With regrets of past and fears of the morrow
Until so reaching the point of exhaustion
Whereupon enters void of cessation
Looking towards God for a miracle
Ecstatic bliss renewal continual

Abiding in thought rested stillness
Our emptiness magnetised in fullness
Head melds with heart with love aligned
Soma nectar flows through paths assigned
We cease to be a doer knowing God the mover
Layer by layer delusion drops, our thoughts slower
We do nothing yet the doing is done anyway
As to pulsations divine we gently sway

We are the created and God the creator
We see truth clearly, needing no translator
Mind-body but an instrument for life experience
We stand erect heeding subtle voice of conscience
The false falls away as ego does slowly vaporise
Pristine presence delights in offered surprise
Nestled in tranquil calm, we feel complete
Suffused from head to toe, bliss replete

[Unseeking Seeker]

Post # 11, verse 13.2 revisited on 16-November-2021

13.2
“The body is strained by practices
The tongue tires of scripture
The mind numbs with meditation
Detached from all this,
I live as I am”


Doing nothing, simply present
We are as are in our native element
Mindful eye of each pulsation cognisant

Body ages, memory fades, we learn
Misaligned from love, suffer, burn
Narrow cravings of ego upturn

God omnipresent, here within
Silence the void, where we begin
Feeling then, bliss throb on our skin

Ceasing to weigh and size, we vaporise
Receptive to each offered surprise
Feel oh hermit, magnetism rise

Exiting limited mind borne doership
Head-heart melds ending one-upmanship
Through day and night unending our worship

We negate not this here mind-body combine
Simply ceasing doing, with love we align
Playing earth role as God does assign

Nothing to be done, we’re bliss replete
Nodes within dance to the divine love beat
As magically rises within us, magnetic bliss heat

[Unseeking Seeker]

Post#12, Verse 14.3-14.4 revisited on 17-November-2021

14.3
“I have realized the Supreme Self,
the Witness, the One
I am indifferent
to bondage and freedom.
I have no need for liberation”

14.4
“The inner condition
of one who is devoid of doubt
yet moves among creatures of illusion
can only be known by those like him”


Mere affirmation
Not a confirmation
Although we confess
That there’s been progress
With glimpses offered
Wisdom proffered
In a slow tease
That does please
Essence of presence
Blissful joyous innocence
Knowing God in-dwells each form
Birthing magnetic rapture warm
No sooner ego disappears
God Himself appears

The way is simple
Though mind fickle
Once it melds with heart
Feel therein bliss ignition start
Soma nectar flows through nadis
Heightened ecstatic joy in continuity
Each pore a door, do we yet need more
There is no one here keeping a score
All is, as is, a bliss continuum
Each node our sensorium
Love meads, we follow
In stillness mellow