From Gloria Lee

[Guest guest]

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Awareness

My nature is light,

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Nothing but light.

When the world arises

I alone am shining.

When the world arises in me,

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It is just an illusion:

Water shimmering in the sun,

A vein of silver in mother-of-pearl,

A serpent in a strand of rope.

>From me the world streams out

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And in me it dissolves,

As a bracelet melts into gold,

A pot crumbles into clay,

A wave subsides into water.

I adore myself.

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How wonderful I am!

I can never die.

The whole world may perish,

>From Brahma to a blade of grass,

But I am still here.

Indeed how wonderful!

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I adore myself.

For I have taken form

But I am still one.

Neither coming or going,

Yet I am still everywhere.

How wonderful,

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And how great my powers!

For I am without form,

Yet till the end of time

I uphold the universe.

Wonderful!

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Ashtavakra Gita 2:8-14

A translation of the Ashtavakra

Gita ----- By Dr. Thomas Byrom