Changing acts and knowing self

[Guest guest]

Namaste,Another piece of verse is appended below, concerning the perfection of truly knowing self.Ananda---------------------------Changing acts and knowing selfI am no changing act performed by any body, sense or mind. I am, instead, that knowing light by whom each changing act gets lit.That knowing is no kind of act which gets put on or taken off. It's not a show which starts or stops. Instead, it's what I always am.I am myself that consciousness whose very being is to know. I know by being what I am, as my own true identity.Illuminated by my light, a world of changing happenings appears produced by instruments that partly show and partly hide.This partly shown, part-hidden world can never be quite clearly known. It's always found to be confused, by mixing truth with falsity.Through instruments of sense and mind, we picture an uncertain world that's found in need of questioning to make our pictures accurate.And, as we question, mind turns back to ask about those instruments which are here found to be involved in making up the picturing.Reflecting yet more deeply back requires mind to get detached, increasingly, from its own actions asking for more clarity.Where perfect clarity is sought, mind's questioning must turn so far that it at last destroys itself as any kind of instrument.It's only thus that I am found -- as knowing which is actionless -- beneath all acts of changing show and all uncertain picturing.