Nirvana-satkam

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Six Verses on Nirvana by Adi Sankara.

Translated by Nome of Society of Abidance in Truth (SAT),

www.satramana.org

 

 

 

The mind, the intellect, the ego, the memory I am not;

Not hearing, not taste, and not smell (or) sight;

And not sky (space), not earth, not fire, not air (wind);

The nature of Consciousness-Bliss, Siva I am, Siva I am.

 

Not, indeed, that which is known as prana, not, verily, the five airs;

Not the seven constituents, not the five sheaths;

Not speech, not the hand (which grasps), not the two feet (which

move), not the organs of procreation, [or] the anus (which excretes);

The nature of Consciousness-Bliss, Siva I am, Siva I am.

 

Not for me aversion [and] attraction, not for me greed [and] delusion;

Not, indeed, pride for me; not, indeed, the feeling of jealousy;

No dharma and no wealth, no desire, no liberation;

The nature of Consciousness-Bliss, Siva I am, Siva I am.

 

No virtue (merit), no sin (demerit, evil), no happiness, no suffering;

No mantra, no tirtham )holy river or holy bathing place), no Vedas,

no worship;

I am not the enjoyment, not the enjoyed, not the enjoyer;

The nature of Consciousness-Bliss, Siva I am, Siva I am.

 

No death, no fear, not for me any differentiation of birth

(distinction of social position);

Not, indeed, father for me, not indeed, mother and birth.

No relation, no friend, indeed no guru [or] disciple;

The nature of Consciousness-Bliss, Siva I am, Siva I am.

 

I am undifferentiated, of an immutable nature;

Being omnipresent, everywhere, of (in) all the senses;

And not unassociated (and no disconnection), no, indeed, liberation,

no bondage.

The nature of Consciousness-Bliss, Siva I am, Siva I am.

 

 

 

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Not two,

Richard