Ashtavakra Gita Verses 15:4 To 15:5
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15.4
“You are not the body
You do not have a body
You neither do nor enjoy
You are Awareness only--the timeless Witness
You are free
Go in happiness”
15.5
“Attachment and aversion
are attributes of the mind
You are not the mind
You are Consciousness itself--
changeless, undivided, free
Go in happiness”
The verse is simple but its import deep
We read it again until its message does seep
Signalling that we surrender all we think we know
And begin experiencing life afresh in stillness slow
Not only this but who is the experiencer
If we be a witness then who is the doer
If we be not the body then we are also not the mind
We are not the identity going through the grind
Provisionally considering this hypothesis as a possibility
We try to find a way to determine its authenticity
The method is easy if we choose by simply rotating polarity
Of the mind body construct in easy geniality
Strange as though it may sound the truth is confirmed
In deep meditation the formlessness of our awareness is discerned
We are as one with the Universe in the boundless ocean of oneness
Although when back to duality we do feel separateness
Yes we are the witness as observing simply looking
At images upon earth wherein we too are breathing
In but not of the world we are at nonchalant ease
Allowing the Divine to unfold life as It does please
We are as such unfettered & free flowing
Unclingingly embracing-imbibing-releasing
Along with this orientation comes a continuum of bliss
We feel aligned and centred within with nothing amiss
Momentum of our past may yet bring about some oscillation
We witness that too in undiminished elation
We are indeed both happy as well as free
With childlike exuberance going about in glee
In continuity
(20-August-2019)
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Verse 15.4 - 15.5 revisited on 20-November-2021
How complete is our surrender
How pristine is our childlike wonder
Resting both thought and memory imagery
Divine aligned, vibrant yet sedentary
Neither seeking nor resisting
Each life pulse delighting
Here and now, in the flesh we stand
Astonished to see awareness expand
Extending to limits of boundless space
Seeing all forms breathed by His grace
Ending forever delusion of separateness
As consciousness entwines with oneness
Back here in form, we plot heart’s impulse
Desiring bliss permanence here now at once
Oscillating between desire and aversion
Illusion indulgence birthing delusion
Witness the periphery from the centre
Cognising all misaligned ego forms canter
Internal eternal, whilst external ephemeral
Enter silence dwelling in calm continual
Ceasing to weigh and size, vaporise
Resistanceless to offered surprise
Whereupon as in but not of the world
Delight in unfoldment as bliss is unfurled
Relegating mind-body as but an instrument
We abide in soul presence luminescent
Head melds with heart, love aligned
All doings done, nothing to be divined
In occupation of assigned earth life vessel
Centred in the void, we behold God’s miracle
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