If you adhere to the Truth

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From Mandala Five of Self-Knowledge

 

If you adhere to the Truth,

The Truth adheres to you,

Illumines and supports you.

The Truth is realized by those

Who are consecrated to it.

One should spiritually practice

With as much intensity

As if life depended on it,

For, indeed, it does.

Do not delay to practice;

Do not wait to know yourself.

Patience is waiting

For something objective to occur.

Impatience is waiting

For something objective to occur.

Do not wait; know yourself.

Care for the root,

And the branches and leaves

Care for themselves.

What appears as intensity in practice

Is, in Realization, found to be

The solidity, vividness,

And reality of the Self.

Intensity in practice becomes

Immovability and imperturbability

In the Knowledge of the Absolute.

Intensely inquire,

Knowing that no ignorant notion

Is too large to conquer.

Intensely inquire,

Knowing that no ignorant notion

Is too small to not relinquish.

Nothing will delude you,

If you adhere to the Truth.

 

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Not two,

Richard