I am pure Knowledge and Bliss, the image of Shiva, the all-good

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Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma !

 

 

It is Tuesday May 10th, 1887, the weekday of Mahamaya. Narendra chants musically

to his brothers of the Math--

 

 

Om. I am not the mind, the intellect, the ego, or the consciousness.

 

Nor am I the ear, the tongue, the nostrils, nor the eyes.

 

I am not the sky, nor land, nor light, nor air.

 

I am pure Knowledge and Bliss, the image of Shiva,

the all-good.

 

I am neither prana, nor pancha vayu, nor the seven metals,

nor pancha kosha.

 

Nor speech, nor hands, nor feet, nor genital, nor anus.

 

I am pure Knowledge and Bliss, the image of Shiva, the all-good.

 

I have neither attachment, nor enmity. Neither have I greed nor

infatuation.

 

I have neither vanity nor spite. I am not dharma, artha, kama and moksha.

 

I am pure Knowledge and Bliss, the image of Shiva, the all-good.

 

Neither am I virtue, nor vice, nor happiness, nor sorrow. I am not mantra, nor

place of pilgramage, nor Veda, nor yajna.

 

I am not the food, nor an edible article, nor the eater. I am pure Knowledge and

Bliss, the image of Shiva, the all-good.

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

 

(SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA. Vol. I., p. 480)