Ashtavakra Gita Verse 13:2

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”


The matrix of in-form body consciousness 
Employs limited bandwidths of vibration
Perceiving with defective awareness
Interpreting in patterned grooves of stagnation 

Yoga, meditation, service or devotion
The rituals and forms but offer hypnotic solace
They offer temporary peace by reinforcing ego delusion 
Falling way too short of connecting with Divine grace

The root of all limitation
Lies in association with the mind body combine
If we be as we are in childlike elation
With the pulsations of the Divine we automatically align

The flow thus being in the present moment continuum 
Wherein we are as we are complete
In stillness observing movement of the maya pendulum 
Always with the Divine nectar replete

(20-August-2019)

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Verse revisited on 16-November-2021

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

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