The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 3
WITHOUT WORDS OR THOUGHTS…
…CESSATION OF EXPLANATIONS
∞
AN ORIGINAL-SILENCE LIFE
TELLS THE STORY
WITHOUT A PERSONAL “I”
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TRANSPARENCY’S RELIEF
ew
4:55 AM-3/28/19
The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally
that the mind's muddy river,
this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash,
cannot be dammed,
and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort
that might lead to madness.
to flow unheeded in the dim channels of consciousness;
you raise your sights;
you look along it, mildly,
acknowledging its presence without interest
and gazing beyond it into the realm of the real
where subjects and objects act and rest purely, without utterance.
–Annie Dillard
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(the above quote read
just moments after the above Morning Whisper Emerged)
AFTERNOON
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 3
Wisdom
1
You know the Self,
By nature one
Without end.
You know the Self,
And you are serene.
How can you still desire riches?
When from ignorance
You see silver in mother-of-pearl,
Greed arises.
From ignorance of the Self
Desire arises
For the world where the senses whirl.
Knowing yourself as
That In which the worlds rise and fall
Like waves in the ocean,
Why do you run about so wretchedly?
For have you not heard?
You are pure awareness,
And your beauty is infinite!
So why let lust mislead you?
The man who is wise
Knows himself in all things
And all things in himself.
Yet how strange!
He still says,
"This is mine."
Determined to be free,
He abides in the oneness
Beyond all things.
Yet how strange!
Indulging in passion, he weakens,
And lust overwhelms him.
Feeble with age,
Still he is filled with desire,
When without doubt he knows
That lust is the enemy of awareness.
Indeed how strange!
He longs to be free . . .
He has no care for this world
Or the next,
And he knows what is passing
Or forever.
And yet how strange!
He is still afraid of freedom.
But he who is truly wise
Always sees the absolute Self.
Celebrated, he is not delighted.
Spurned, he is not angry.
Pure of heart,
He watches his own actions
As if they were another's.
How can praise or blame disturb him?
With clear and steady insight
He sees this world is a mirage,
And he no longer wonders about it.
How can he fear the approach of death?
Pure of heart,
He desires nothing,
Even in despair.
He is content In the knowledge of the Self.
With whom may I compare him?
With clear and steady insight
He knows that whatever he sees
Is by its very nature nothing.
How can he prefer one thing to another?
He is beyond all duality,
Free from desire,
He has driven from his mind
All longing for the world.
Come what may,
Joy or sorrow,
Nothing moves him.
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 3
http://www.austincc.edu/adechene/Ashta%20Byrom%20short.pdf
Entire Book with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
... So come I to live in thoughts, and act with
energies, which are immortal.
Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said,
that "its beauty is immense," man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh,
and be less astonished at particular wonders;
he will learn that there is no profane history;
that all history is sacred;
that the universe is represented in an atom,
in a moment of time.
but he will live with a divine unity.
He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life,
and be content with all places and with any service he can render.
He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency
of that trust which carries God with it,
and so
hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841
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A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
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A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 3
3 Wisdom
1
You know the Self,
By nature one
Without end.
You know the Self,
And you are serene.
How can you still desire riches?
2
When from ignorance
You see silver in mother-of-pearl,
Greed arises.
From ignorance of the Self
Desire arises
For the world where the senses whirl.
3
Knowing yourself asThat
In which the worlds rise and fall
Like waves in the ocean,
Why do you run about so wretchedly?
4
For have you not heard?
You are pure awareness,
And your beauty is infinite!
So why let lust mislead you?
5
The man who is wise
Knows himself in all things
And all things in himself.
Yet how strange!
He still says,
"This is mine."
6
Determined to be free,
He abides in the oneness
Beyond all things.
Yet how strange!
Indulging in passion, he weakens,
And lust overwhelms him.
7
Feeble with age,
Still he is filled with desire,
When without doubt he knows
That lust is the enemy of awareness.
Indeed how strange!
8
He longs to be free . . .
He has no care for this world
Or the next,
And he knows what is passing
Or forever.
And yet how strange!
He is still afraid of freedom.
9
But he who is truly wise
Always sees the absolute Self.
Celebrated, he is not delighted.
Spurned, he is not angry.
10
Pure of heart,
He watches his own actions
As if they were another's.
How can praise or blame disturb him?
11
With clear and steady insight
He sees this world is a mirage,
And he no longer wonders about it.
How can he fear the approach of death?
12
Pure of heart,
He desires nothing,
Even in despair.
He is content In the knowledge of the Self.
With whom may I compare him?
13
With clear and steady insight
He knows that whatever he sees
Is by its very nature nothing.
How can he prefer one thing to another?
14
He is beyond all duality,
Free from desire,
He has driven from his mind
All longing for the world.
Come what may,
Joy or sorrow,
Nothing moves him.
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 3
http://www.austincc.edu/adechene/Ashta%20Byrom%20short.pdf
Entire Book with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313