Consciousness alone ever is

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From Mandala Two of

Self-Knowledge

 

 

Consciousness alone ever is.

Being and Consciousness

Are one and the same.

Subtlest, vastest, self-luminous,

Consciousness ever is.

None knows it.

It knows all.

It knows itself.

Only Consciousness can know itself.

Nothing else can do so.

Consciousness requires no other light

Other than itself to illuminate itself.

Consciousness alone ever is.

As the sun does not cease to shine,

When a cloud passes before it,

Consciousness shines uninterruptedly,

Beyond all concepts of obscuration.

Never is there a cloudy day

For the sun itself.

Identify with the sun

Of ever-shining Consciousness.

That which illumines thoughts,

Sensory perceptions, and all experience

Is known by none of these.

None knows it.

It knows all.

It knows itself.

Consciousness alone shines.

Formless and infinite.

Consciousness alone ever is.

 

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Not two,

Richard