Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”
The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a dream
Yet in truth of being resident therein what may be our retort
If our state of being rejects this even while within the Divine stream
The illusionary movie and the real unchanging screen
Both images and non images (void) of the movie imaginal
How may we then in stillness glean
The said reality beyond the mind delusional
In so far as to us revealed
Everything is energy ... vibration
Even upon piercing the veil concealed
May we not entwine with the Creator in celebration
How may we blindly accept non duality
When we do feel a separateness
Although there may be a higher reality
All we recognise is interconnectedness
In most respectful humility
We accept our present ignorance
Yet be that as it may we do resonate in compatibility
With the Divine Love pulsation in innocence
We admit that there is a gap in our cognition
Yet in the field of definitive knowing
How may we blindly join the chorus upon this suggestion
At best we rest in silence flowing & allowing
We pause at this verse of the book most holy
Humbled by the revelation oft affirmed by many a sage
Stilling our stillness within the vibrant void yet more slowly
We surrender all residual thought freezing at this page
We are as we are enlivened by Divine grace in bliss unabating
Aligned both within & without to the pulse of Love gyrating
We look at such paradoxes as plausible learning lying in waiting
Analysing not their import for we are joyous in our blossoming
Epilogue
What be the conflict between light & darkness
When both be manifestations of the That oneness
In timeless time we do come to realise
Upon ceasing to weigh and measure and size
That dreams encircle dreams ad infinitum
Played out in a fictional linear time continuum
As long as there be unfulfilled desire in our heart
We will continue encasing forms driving us apart
From the source
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Let us look at the early days
When our fickle attention was more prone to sway
Looking back at the journey taken thus far
In observational stillness we no longer spar
Waves of thought which used to come & go
In resonance with our orientation are already slow
We are at the centre presence of innocence
Bandwidths of our focus at a higher awareness
It is clear that even where we are now is not our doing
How may a caterpillar believe that one day it will be flying
As such based upon present coordinate of reference
We make peace in enablement as interconnectedness
In stillness restful until we truly know what is oneness
(21-August-2019)
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Verse 15.7 revisited on 30-November-2021
From our here and now vantage point
Breath by breath as bliss we self-anoint
Simply abiding in thought rested stillness
Formless soul presence one with oneness
Head and heart align with pulsations divine
Bliss throbs heighten, for which lovers pine
As a hue of divine sublime love pulsation
Yet far cry still is wisdom assimilation
Glimpses of truth shown as a teaser
Light that flickers, not heart appeaser
For merely knowing, not quite becoming
In a sea of darkness, we are still swimming
For although we know that God is omnipresent
We yet grant not love unconditional consent
Blockages within veil divine love and light
Enabled not yet is clear spherical sight
We witness oscillations of our heart
From ego spawned delusion yet to part
During samadhi, the universe disappears
On entering mind-body, duality reappears
God alone the doer, we are all receptors
As bliss percolates our body vectors
The underlying truth of oneness is clear
Yet we still cling to desires, ego holds dear
Oh worthy lama, we are yet to fully become
One with the That oneness, as light of the sun
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