Ashtavakra Gita Verse 1:19-1:20
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
(19-August-2019)
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Verse revisited on 23-October-2021
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
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