atmavichara

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When the ego rises all things rise with it.

When the ego is not, there is nothing else.

Since the ego thus is everything,

to question "What is this thing?"

is the extinction of all things.

 

'That' we are, when 'I' has not arisen.

Without searching whence the 'I' arises,

how to attain the self-extinction where no 'I' arises?

Without attaining self-extinction,

how to stay in one's true state where the Self is 'That'?

 

Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep

within oneself - like one who, to find a thing that has

fallen into water, dives deep down -

one must seek out the source

whence the aspiring ego springs.

 

Cease all talk of 'I' and search with inward-diving mind

whence the thought of 'I' springs up.

This is the way of wisdom.

To think, instead, "I am not this, but That I am",

is helpful in the search, but it is not the search itself.

 

When the mind turns inward seeking "Who am I?"

and merges in the Heart,

then the 'I' hangs down his head in shame

and the One 'I' appears as Itself.

Though It appears as "I,I", it is not the ego.

It is Reality, Perfection, the Substance of the Self.

 

 

 

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Reality in Forty Verses, V. 26-30

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