If one knows the Self

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from Mandala Four of Self-Knowledge

 

 

If one knows the Self,

Nothing else is

And nowhere else is.

If the Self is not known,

There are as many things

And realms of experience

As one imagines to be.

Multiplicity of states appears

Only so long

As ignorance is conjured.

With the dawn of Knowledge,

They vanish away,

Like darkness in light,

Dreams at night's end,

The unreal into the Real.

In Truth, only one state is,

Natural and innate,

No realms or things,

No dream and its images,

No shadows or illusions,

Their birth and their death,

For the one state

Is Being, just as it is,

If ignorance vanishes,

If one knows the Self.

 

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Not two,

Richard