Upadesa Saram, Major Alan Chadwick version, verses 18-19

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18.

 

The mind is nothing but a lot of thoughts,

Of all these many thoughts 't is the thought "I"

That is the root. So we can say by that

The mind in truth is only the thought "I".

 

19.

 

Whence, therefore, does this 'I-thought' have its birth?

With vigilant and ever active mind

Seek this, and crestfallen the "I" becomes.

The search, itself, the quest of Wisdom is.

 

..... to be continued

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from:

UPADESA SARAM

Rendered into verse by Major Alan Chadwick

 

("....Major Chadwick translated Upadesa Saram into English and had his manuscript corrected by Bhagavan." - David Godman on www.davidgodman.org )