Ashtavakra Gita Verse 2:21-2:22

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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” As we make our daily entrée In our seeing what do we see Searching for happiness we sweat & toil Yet each fleeting joy, suffering does foil Comes a time we tire of chasing the rainbow Looking within we truly wish to know The realisation then is simply this Divine love alone renews unending bliss Rejecting then as unreal all forms fleeting We embrace dynamic stillness as the Divine pulse beating The One dividing Itself into two as Self & self Love multiplying exponentially pouring Itself into itself Everything energy and energy vibration Doing nothing we ascend by simply being in resonation In renewal of unending continuation (19-August-2019) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Verse revisited on 24-October-2021 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

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