Ashtavakra Gita : contemplations on random verses

[Unseeking Seeker]

19.3
“Where is past and future,
or even present?
Where is space, or even eternity?
I abide in the glory of Self”

Verse revisited on 23-April-2022

Sans thought flow that marks time
With stillness blurring boundaries of space
All that remains is the magnetic bliss throb sublime
Inner eye beholding divine light, soft white, by His grace

Having chosen to experience sharp contrast of duality
We celebrate even our illusion of seeming delusion
Recognising each exhalation our form’s fatality
Divine centric awareness has no confusion

With each breath intake the world appears
Sans thought interference, we just feel by touch
Melding with the flow, on exhalation it all disappears
For the offered dream experience, we thank God very much

As the one chose to become two and the two then so many
Our expanded consciousness recognises but oneness
Thus all we see but a burst of thought epiphany
Wherein we’re aglow in vibrant blissfulness

[Unseeking Seeker]

19.4
“Where is Self?
Where is not-Self?
Where is good and evil,
confusion and clarity?
I abide in the glory of Self”

Verse revisited on 17-May-2022

Beginning with bliss kinetic
Magnetism in linear movement
Entwined with soma nectar ecstatic
Purring ignition renewal continual vibrant

Rapture then crystallises within organic form
Each cell of mind-body is centred in space
Rippleless peace neither cool nor warm
Fulcrum from where outpours grace

One with oneness in waking state
Both the manifest and space are one
Fullness in Absoluteness potent yet sedate
Presence melds with source of the central sun

Freedom beyond understanding of mind is ours
Magnetism assimilation, to a silent Om-hum
Beyond all opposites, inner being towers
Consciousness a flaming sensorium