Chapter 3

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Lyrics 3

 

 

1. What can I say? I bow down to Love! Neither personal nor

impersonal, ungraspable, unavoidable, the uncreated potential of

existence and non-existence both, neither/or, everywhere, nowhere,

simultaneously, transcendent of qualities, yet the true within every

quality, The One, God, Guru, Self – I Am! Beyond I Am – not a

creature is stirring, not even a One. Not Guru, not God, not Self.

Jai to That!

 

2. What can I say? Well, here's a question: How can I bow down to

Self, when I am ever Self alone? If there is only God, who bows down

to God?

 

God!

 

Just so, from all directions, in all directions, I bow down to God!

Jai to Love! Jai to the Heart Love Lives! Yes, I bow down to That!

 

3. Bowing is bowing. Bowing is bowing back. No one can explain this --

even so, I bow down to That!

 

4. What can I say? Desireless? Unconditional? Essence? Why truck with

words to places words can't go, where mind on mind's wheels gains no

traction? Don't forget, You Are! All spacious equanimity, all

selfless silent courtesy, all inconceivable grace! Yes, I'll sing to

That!

 

5. What can I say? In practice, accentuate the positive, eliminate

the negative, by recognizing both as mere arbitrary interpretations

upon perception, endless modifications of mind, not you, not what you

really are -- undifferentiated awareness itself. Some may call that

Bliss. Who is there to argue? Jai to That!

 

6. What can I say? Not this, not that, not coming or going, I abide

as myself. Within all knowledge, I am the Unknown.

 

7. What can I say? Emptiness -- all senses, all faculties, all sense

of body or mind. All perception, emotion, memory. All sense of any

self, even any witness of a non-existent self -- limitless, all-

pervasive emptiness. Yes, I bow down to That!

 

8. What can I say? Any idea about this is false. Any notion or fancy.

Any concept that this is some possible state of attainment is false.

Any concerted cognition that this just might be other than this, or

once was, or will be, is false. Ignore thought. Be this! Jai to This!

Jai to This!

 

9. What can I say? Wherever there's fuel, I'm fire. Past, present,

future – incinerated, just like that! All of myself, fuel for myself.

Beyond fuel and fire, not even ash, I am.

 

10. The seed story of any seemingly-persistent existence is not who

you are, nor narrator, nor audience. Nevertheless, enjoy the show!

What can I say? I bow down to you! I am You!

 

11. What can I say? That there is no separation in me? No unity, no

neither? No frame of reference, no reference to frame? No provisional

explanation that is anything like a name? No name, your name. Jai to

You!

 

12. If this is all sounding familiar, what can I say? Fate and

fortune have nothing on you. You have never existed, Jai to You! This

understanding – You Are – is like space. And yet, what stirs in the

womb of forgetfulness? Not even a trace! That's your face! Yes, Jai

to You!

 

13. What can I say? You are not the one suffering, the one fleeing,

the one racing to far distant finishing lines. You were finished

before you began. There is no line, nobody ran, nobody's running now,

nobody ever will. Don't worry, relax!

 

14. What can I say? If waking, dreaming, and deep-deep sleeping are

not what I am, how can I say a word? If there is no past, present, or

future, how can I say a word? Even so, "Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om".

 

15. What can I say? This tongue is not my own, nor do I know who

speaks, who listens. I am Peace. Jai to That!

 

16. What can I say? Not even the impeccable recollections of

imaginary cosmic Lords can place me! Neither heaven nor hell exist in

me – the wise might even call that heaven. The wiser wouldn't even

speak. Jai to That!

 

17. What can I say? There is no formula to This. No scripture, no

teacher, no science of This. Why struggle with symbols? Even to

say, "only awareness remains", what value is that? What is so hard

about just being still?

 

18. I am.

 

Note: And then to the lad, who had quipped from the side, he

said, "Now that you've dined, wash your dishes!"