Knowledge is singular

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from Mandala Four of Self-Knowledge

 

Knowledge is singular,

Ignorance twofold.

Veiling is one aspect,

Making the Real seem unreal,

The ever-existent absent.

Differentiation is the other,

Projecting the unreal into itself,

Creating the details

Of illusion so empty,

Like the waves of the water

Seen in a mirage,

Ignorance has neither

Power nor substance of its own,

But borrows, as it were,

The reality, identity,

And happiness of the Self,

To make the unreal seem real,

The never-existent as being.

Such is the effect

Of ignorance, the illusion

Of veiling and projected multiplicity.

The result of Knowledge

Is Being, unhidden, undivided,

Transcendent of all name and form.

Ignorance conceives itself dually,

As I and as this.

Knowledge reveals no I and no this,

Indivisible Being

Alone as existing,

One with the knowing, for

Knowledge is singular.

 

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Not two,

Richard