FROM SAD VIDYA

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The first two verses ( i and ii) below are Invocatory verses, which begin a new

section of the text, the 40 Verses on Reality..

 

Truth Revealed

 

i. Without the Reality existing, can there be a knowledge of existence? Free

from all thoughts, that Reality abides in the Heart, the Source of all thoughts.

It is, therefore, called the Heart. How then to contemplate it? To be as it is

in the Heart, is Its contemplation.

 

ii. Those, for whom there is the intense fear of death, seek only the feet of

the Lord as their refuge, Who has neither death nor birth. Dead to themselves

and their possessions, can the thought of death occur to them again? Deathless

are they.