A DROWNING DEATH UNFETTERED FREEDOM April 6, 2019 "Grasping nothing, spurning nothing."

​Continuing with the Sharing of
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 12
​Fulfillment

A DROWNING DEATH
 OF ALL SUPERFLUITY DUE TO ORIGINAL SILENCE
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SUCH ASPHYXIATION
 REMOVES VEILS OF CHOKING DECEIT
∞
COCKROACHES SHUN LIGHT & DROWN IN LIVING WATERS
< 
CLARITY & UNFETTERED FREEDOM
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5:34 AM-4/6/19
 
RE-REMINDER!
OTHER WAYS TO KNOW ‘COCKROACH’:
https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/spirit-totem-power-animal-meanings/insects/cockroach-symbolism-meaning/
 
From a dream psychology perspective, the dead cockroach is a symbol of cleansing your mind
https://www.auntyflo.com/dream-dictionary/roach-cockroach

12
​ Fulfillment 
​

1
First I gave up action, 
Then idle words,
And lastly thought itself.
​Now I am here.

2
​ Ridding my mind of distraction,
single-pointed,
I shut out sound and all the senses,
And I am here.

3
Meditation is needed 
Only when the mind is distracted
By false imagining.

Knowing this,
I am here.

4
 Without joy or sorrow,
 Grasping nothing, spurning nothing,
O Master,
​ I am here. 

5
What do I care
If I observe or neglect
The four stages of life?

Meditation,
Controlling the mind,
These are mere distractions!

Now I am here.

 6
​Doing, or not doing,
 Both come from not knowing.

Knowing this fully,
I am here.

 7
Thinking
  Of what is beyond thinking
Is still thinking.

I gave up thinking,
​And I am here.

8 
Whoever fulfills this 
Fulfills his own nature
​And is indeed fulfilled.

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter  12

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​

​AFTERNOON

You are something that the whole universe is doing, 
in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
...

We do not “come into” this world;
we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” 

Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature,
a unique action of the total universe.
This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. 
Even those who know it to be true in theory
do not sense or feel it,
but continue to be aware of themselves
​ as isolated “egos”
​inside bags of skin.

You didn’t come into this world.
You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.
You are not a stranger here.
—Alan Watts
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, excerpt
.
know-the-self

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/doership.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29.

“Hold on to this knowingness ‘I am’ without words
and every secret of your existence
will be revealed to you.”
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
know-the-self

View from back porch...veiling entrance/clothesline!