The one Self is said to be like the sky.
Indeed,
It is like the sky.
It is pure consciousness,
Without any stain.
It is truly the all-embracing wholeness.
Resting the attention inside the awareness itself,
There is no separation.
There is no yourself and awareness.
Just the expanse,
Immeasurable,
Silent,
Effortless,
Omnipresent.
Awareness is not something that can be seen.
Yet there is awareness of the ability to see.
Mind may itself arise in the form of some images or thoughts.
There is awareness of this,
But there is no need to engage with any activity.
There may be awareness of the body-form,
But it itself is sensed,
A sensation in the awareness which is formless.
Notice this.
Should any thought,
Or feeling,
Or image appear,
Let it be.
Like clouds passing,
Nothing sticks.
There is nothing to reach,
Nothing to create,
Nothing to change,
There is nothing to control.
Just this infinite expanse of being,
This is the root,
The very ground of being.
The pure Self has no counterpart.
Mind is not its opposite.
Mind is only a movement,
Momentariness.
There is nothing to keep,
Or to hold on to from mind.
It is merely clouds passing.
Unlike clouds,
Unlike time,
You are not passing.
Be aware of this.
Your awareness Self is like space,
Empty,
Formless.
How can it come or go?
All appears in it,
But it does not appear.
How can it be perceived?
It is subtly reflected,
A silence,
Peace,
The great expanse.
But it is beyond any shape.
If you were the form,
Such as the body,
You could turn to the left or right,
In or out,
Up or down.
But look,
You are formless.
In which direction are you?
Or are you not?
You are not a person.
This awareness has no history,
Nor desire.
It is beyond even the sense of I,
Or other.
Confirm.
Because of the silence and the emptiness,
Something begins to behave like sleep.
But it is not sleep.
It is beyond the mode of sleep,
Or even phenomenal wakefulness.
These are perceived.
Notice how the mind may introduce some image to offer as an anchor for awareness.
But how false.
By what and to what can awareness be anchored?
This is your true place and Self.
But you also appear in the dynamic body as a dynamic being.
Knowing this,
There is still a unity,
A harmony between the active and the passive.
Still,
You are beyond doing and non-doing,
As you are.
Look,
How simple.
How natural.
Imagination is not needed.
Visualising is not needed.
The Self can neither be bored,
Nor entertained.
It is its own bliss,
Its own completeness.
It is naturally Self-aware,
Resting in awareness is not an act of concentration,
Simply by not combining the sense of Self with anything imagined,
Any object,
Or thought,
Or feeling.
Here,
Like this,
You are in the height of your being,
And yet effortless.
It is just so.
Again,
I remind you,
You are not waiting,
Not expecting,
Neither doing nor undoing.
There is nothing to attain.
Peace is your fragrance.
Silence.
Unbound silence.
You are not in some state.
Even states come and go.
Awareness never came,
It cannot go.
Far beyond the field of the play of duality,
You are.
This is.
Notice that you are not a blank.
A blank also is perceivable.
You are not a black hole.
A black hole would also be perceivable.
Nothing describable can be what you are.
There is no need to even believe this.
Know this.
Seeing without eyes,
Knowing without mind,
Being without becoming,
Whatever appears,
You are already here.
You are neither on top,
Nor below,
Neither in,
Nor out.
You just are.
Recognise this.
You are not a type,
Not a caste.
Recognising your awareness Self,
No one can come to the end of you.
Unmoving,
Yet present everywhere.
Mind.
Mind.
Where is mind?
Just thought.
Doing,
Undoing,
Not doing.
What are these for you?
What is personal for you?
Here is awareness.
For a time,
You lived unaware of your true nature.
Now you know and are.
Cursing nothing.
Judging nothing.
Happy inside your own Self.
What is next for you,
Or past?
The mind and the sense of a personal Self is waiting for you.
When will you join them?
Where will you go?
Where will you leave?
Having recognised this,
Can you unrecognise it?
Having seen,
Can you unsee?
You are the stillness in the heart of all movement,
The unchanging inside all changefulness.
Now can you see?
You may have heard such things,
Read them even,
But now you can know.
For you are resting inside your own awareness as one.
Again,
Notice.
You are not waiting,
Not expecting,
Not striving.
Be and feel the fullness of your unchanging Self.
Marinate your mind in this knowing,
So that when you are pushed in the world of changes,
You will know the unchanging.
When you are in the midst of all noise,
You will be the silence.
But do not speak of this.
Be this.
In all your ways,
Remain natural.
There is no need to plan.
For knowing this and being this,
All things will unfold and flow naturally.
Recognising this to be so,
Your joy flows unimpeded.
Remain with yourself.
What is past for you?
What is future?
What is even present for you?
Vast and unbound are you.
All this life is functioning spontaneously by the will of God.
For the Self,
There is no waiting.
There is no hoping.
No controlling.
No effort.
Yet,
In the early stages of Self-discovery,
Keep bringing your attention here.
You are not one who is brought here.
You are already here.
Remember this deep inside your being.
You are the unchanging one.
The witness to all the comings and goings called life.
You are your Self-life,
And the witness to life.
Abide in this,
And be spontaneously happy.
Mind will come to test you.
An activity that must happen.
You cannot fail.
Mind is your servant,
Not your master.
It is your wish to be tested.
Remember that.
