Ashtavakra Gita Verse 5:1-5:4
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5.1
“You are immaculate,
touched by nothing.
What is there to renounce?
The mind is complex—let it go
Know the peace of dissolution”
5.2
“The universe arises from you like foam from the sea
Know yourself as One
Enter the peace of dissolution”
5.3
“Like an imagined snake in a rope
the universe appears to exist
in the immaculate Self
but does not
Seeing this you know: “There is nothing to dissolve.”
5.4
“You are perfect, changeless,
through misery and happiness,
hope and despair,
life and death
This is the state of dissolution”
Consciousness upside down
Tail wagging the dog
Are we in a circus as a clown
Or simply lost in the fog
We ourselves create the bubble
The bubble of delusion
Stagnation causing our troubles
Imbalanced and in confusion
The mind an instrument
That should do our bidding
But the ego glue contaminant
Blocks the Divine within us vibrating
So use thought by all means
As and when needed
For mundanity to glean
Thereafter let its cries go unheeded
The Universe and we are One in interconnectedness
Just as in-form consciousness may expand to higher awareness
If we quieten promptings external in a continuum of stillness
No renunciation needed for all we possess is joy of wellness
As for the famous snake and rope illusion
We simply follow the scent
Choosing expansion & rejecting contraction avoid delusion
Ensuring our ascent
Emotions rise and fall
As well as change colouration
Unabating bliss within being the all
We sidestep ego precipitation
There is no doing and yet the doing is done
All coordinates on the Ferris wheel holding equal appeal
Shedding conditioning of our past aligned with the Divine as one
Our heart awakens as we begin to feel
The shift within an automatic happening
We stand still in an orientation of allowing
In being becoming and slowly blossoming
Elixirous in the flow the Divine nectar imbibing
In a flow unending
28-August-2019
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Verse revisited on 25-October-2021
Simply stated
Our heart elated
In time stretched stillness
Melding with the That oneness
We recognise that the one is in all
Thereby desires dissolve in a bliss squall
Here, within this reflected universe
Our soul sings the love verse
Even as life dream plays
Bliss in our heart stays
The aspect that seeks
Is ego full of energy leaks
A bubble of thought imaginary
So we abide in silence sedentary
Moment to moment, thus divine entwined
Living life internally, thus nothing to be divined
Vaporising lower mind, becoming a bliss mist
Imbibing soma nectar by ceasing to resist
Mind-body empty shell magnetised
In timeless time, God realised
Copyright © Unseeking Seeker | Year Posted 2021
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