Fwd: Introduction to Vedanta-9

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advaitin , Ananda Wood <awood wrote:

 

Namaste Shri Sadananda,

 

Thank you for your message #35135 (Feb 15) on " Trasformationless

Transformation " . It brought to mind Shri Atmananda's insistence that

no transformation of the world -- nor even of personality in

world -- is essential to realization. A change of perspective alone

is truly needed. So your message inspired a piece of verse which is

appended below.

 

Ananda

 

 

A change of perspective

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All acts performed involve belief

in mind-conceived imagining

of different objects in a world

perceived through passing states of time.

 

As mind conceives of passing time,

no different moments co-exist.

Each present moment must occur

with previous moments now passed by

and future moments yet to come.

 

As moments pass in changing mind,

each moment that occurs is found

experienced in the singular.

 

At every moment in the mind,

only one state occurring then

is actually experienced.

 

No different sates of changing time

are known together actually,

in any mind's experience.

 

How then can any mind relate

its different states: as each appears

thus isolated on its own,

with other states found absent then?

 

To overcome this isolation

of mind's momentary states,

a knowing presence must continue

through the course of passing time.

 

That knowing presence must remain.

It must stay present in the mind,

through mental states that come and go.

 

It is just that whose presence stays,

through all the comings and the goings

of these passing states of mind.

 

That presence is called 'consciousness'.

It's shared in common underneath

all different states of changing mind.

 

It is the background of each mind,

beneath all change and difference.

From there, all changing acts are known.

 

That background is in truth what knows.

Its knowing is no changing act,

involving any mind's belief.

Its knowing is just what it is,

beneath all mind's conceived beliefs.

 

To know that knowing, mind must turn,

back from all world's transforming acts,

to that which knows these acts unchanged.

 

Returning there, it turns out that

no transformation is here needed

in our persons or the world.

 

What needs to change is only where

what's taken as the knower stands.

 

Where that true knowing has been found,

all personality and world

are found expressing perfectly

what is quite perfect in itself.

 

Attaining that perspective there,

all need for change is at an end.

 

--- End forwarded message ---