Knowledge is constant

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from Mandala Four of Self-Knowledge

 

Knowledge is constant,

As Being ever is.

When Knowledge is constant,

So is its Bliss.

With ignorance, a life of

Happiness is impossible.

With Self-Knowledge, profound

wisdom,

Ignorance is impossible.

There is never a good moment

To dwell in ignorance,

Never an appropriate time

To suffer or believe in the unreal.

Dualism is required

For one to feel fear.

Nondual is the Self,

Its Bliss and its Being

Never ceasing, not decaying,

And never destroyed.

Reality is nondual.

Dualism is false.

Belief in duality

Yields a stormy ride on a calm sea,

A nightmare when quietly in bed.

Disquietude when everything is fine,

A corner in the Infinite,

Death in the Eternal,

The unreal in the Real.

Knowledge depends not

On time or on place;

No need to wait

To know one's own Self

Death differs not from life:

If dreaming alive,

One dreams in death;

If awake to the Self,

There is no life or death.

Know Being as it ever is,

Consciousness as Knowledge itself,

Blissful immortality is yours

When this imperturbable Self

Is realized and this

Knowledge is constant

 

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Not two,

Richard