The bodiless is infinite

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From Mandala Five of Self-Knowledge

 

 

The bodiless is infinite.

The inconceivable is eternal.

The bodiless is eternal.

The inconceivable is infinite.

Conceptions of the finite and transient

As being the Self

Are born of lack of inquiry.

Inner and outer

Are the results of ignorance

That assumes the body

Is the boundary between them.

The Self is not the body,

Unborn and locationless,

Having neither inside nor outside.

The body is objective, divisible,

changeful,

And dependent for its very appearance.

The Self is nonobjective, indivisible,

changeless,

Nondependent and self-existent.

How can these two be confounded?

Pass beyond the body,

Beyond boundary and death,

Merged with the Absolute,

By Knowledge of the Self,

For the formless is eternal,

The bodiless is infinite.

 

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Not two,

Richard