To know the Truth

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from Mandala Four of Self-Knowledge

 

To know the Truth

Of one's own Self

Is the one way to be liberated

From all ignorance,

Its delusion of bondage.

And its consequent suffering.

Ignorance is merely

An inverted view

Of the one ever-same Existence,

An inverted attempt

To know the Reality of the Self.

Samsara is Brahman seen unclearly;

Ego is the Self seen unclearly.

Brahma-nirvana is extinguishment

Of the notion that there is a samsara.

Realization is knowing

The nonexistence of the ego.

Liberation is freedom

From the notion that there is bondage.

To destroy samsara,

Destroy ignorance.

To destroy ignorance,

Destroy the ego.

To destroy the ego,

Know the Self.

To know the Self is

To know the Truth.

 

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Not two,

Richard