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 18
The Master
Verses 41-60
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 18
The Master
Verses 41-60
NOTHING & NO/THING
IS GREATER THAN
ORIGINAL SILENCE
∞
BREATH AS THE PRIMORDIALTOUCHSTONE
OF ORIGINAL BEING IN HUMAN FORM…
=
THE CORE AS TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
REMOVING ALL SENSE
=
NOTHING & NO/THING
SUPERCEDES THIS
“JUST IS”
=
ALL ELSE PERCEIVED
IS MERELY
A REMINDER OF
“THE HUSH OF NOT” *
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4:40 AM-4/16/19
IS GREATER THAN
ORIGINAL SILENCE
∞
BREATH AS THE PRIMORDIALTOUCHSTONE
OF ORIGINAL BEING IN HUMAN FORM…
=
THE CORE AS TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
REMOVING ALL SENSE
=
NOTHING & NO/THING
SUPERCEDES THIS
“JUST IS”
=
ALL ELSE PERCEIVED
IS MERELY
A REMINDER OF
“THE HUSH OF NOT” *
ew
4:40 AM-4/16/19
*Evil's Tender Kiss/ew - Epilogue
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The Master
Verses 41-60
41
The fool tries to control his mind.
How can he ever succeed?
Mastery always comes naturally
To the man who is wise
And who loves himself.
42
One man believes in existence,
Another says, "There is nothing!"
Rare is the man who believes in neither.
He is free from confusion.
One man believes in existence,
Another says, "There is nothing!"
Rare is the man who believes in neither.
He is free from confusion.
43
The fool may know that the Self
Is pure and indivisible.
But because of his folly,
He never finds it.
He suffers all his life.
The fool may know that the Self
Is pure and indivisible.
But because of his folly,
He never finds it.
He suffers all his life.
44
The mind of a man who longs to be free
Stumbles without support.
But the mind of a man who is already free
Stands on its own.
It is empty of passion.
The mind of a man who longs to be free
Stumbles without support.
But the mind of a man who is already free
Stands on its own.
It is empty of passion.
45
The senses are tigers.
When a timid man catches sight of them,
He runs for safety to the nearest cave,
To practice control and meditation.
The senses are tigers.
When a timid man catches sight of them,
He runs for safety to the nearest cave,
To practice control and meditation.
46
But a man without desires is a lion.
When the senses see him,
It is they who take flight!
They run away like elephants,
As quietly as they can.
And if they cannot escape,
They serve him like slaves.
But a man without desires is a lion.
When the senses see him,
It is they who take flight!
They run away like elephants,
As quietly as they can.
And if they cannot escape,
They serve him like slaves.
47
A man who has no doubts
And whose mind is one with the Self
No longer looks for ways to find freedom.
He lives happily in the world,
Seeing and hearing,
Touching and smelling and tasting.
A man who has no doubts
And whose mind is one with the Self
No longer looks for ways to find freedom.
He lives happily in the world,
Seeing and hearing,
Touching and smelling and tasting.
48
Just by hearing the truth
He becomes spacious
And his awareness pure.
He is indifferent
To striving or stillness.
He is indifferent
To his own indifference.
Just by hearing the truth
He becomes spacious
And his awareness pure.
He is indifferent
To striving or stillness.
He is indifferent
To his own indifference.
49
The master is like a child.
He does freely whatever comes his way,
Good or bad.
The master is like a child.
He does freely whatever comes his way,
Good or bad.
50
By standing on his own
A man finds happiness.
By standing on his own
A man finds freedom.
By standing on his own
He goes beyond the world.
By standing on his own
He finds the end of the way.
By standing on his own
A man finds happiness.
By standing on his own
A man finds freedom.
By standing on his own
He goes beyond the world.
By standing on his own
He finds the end of the way.
51
When a man realizes
He is neither the doer nor the enjoyer,
The ripples of his mind are stilled.
When a man realizes
He is neither the doer nor the enjoyer,
The ripples of his mind are stilled.
52
The master's way is unfettered
And free of guile.
He shines.
But for the fool
There is no peace.
His thoughts are full of desire.
The master's way is unfettered
And free of guile.
He shines.
But for the fool
There is no peace.
His thoughts are full of desire.
53
The master is free of his mind,
And his mind is free.
In this freedom he plays.
He has a wonderful time!
Or he withdraws
And lives in a mountain cave.
The master is free of his mind,
And his mind is free.
In this freedom he plays.
He has a wonderful time!
Or he withdraws
And lives in a mountain cave.
54
If the master encounters
A king or a woman
Or someone he dearly loves,
He is without desire.
And when he honors
A god or a holy place
Or a man versed in the scriptures,
There is no longing in his heart.
None at all!
If the master encounters
A king or a woman
Or someone he dearly loves,
He is without desire.
And when he honors
A god or a holy place
Or a man versed in the scriptures,
There is no longing in his heart.
None at all!
55
He is unperturbed
Even when his servants despise him,
Or his wives, sons, and grandsons mock him.
Even when his whole family makes fun of him,
He is undismayed.
He is unperturbed
Even when his servants despise him,
Or his wives, sons, and grandsons mock him.
Even when his whole family makes fun of him,
He is undismayed.
56
For him there is no pain in pain,
No pleasure in pleasure.
Only those who are like him
Can know his exaltation.
For him there is no pain in pain,
No pleasure in pleasure.
Only those who are like him
Can know his exaltation.
57
He has no form.
His form is emptiness.
He is constant and pure.
He has no sense of duty,
Which only binds men to the world.
He has no form.
His form is emptiness.
He is constant and pure.
He has no sense of duty,
Which only binds men to the world.
58
The master fulfills his duties
And is always untroubled.
The fool does nothing
And is always troubled and distracted.
The master fulfills his duties
And is always untroubled.
The fool does nothing
And is always troubled and distracted.
59
The master goes about his business
With perfect equanimity.
He is happy when he sits,
Happy when he talks and eats,
Happy asleep,
Happy coming and going.
The master goes about his business
With perfect equanimity.
He is happy when he sits,
Happy when he talks and eats,
Happy asleep,
Happy coming and going.
60
Because he knows his own nature,
He does what he has to without feeling ruffled
Like ordinary people.
Smooth and shining,
Like the surface of a vast lake.
His sorrows are at an end.
Because he knows his own nature,
He does what he has to without feeling ruffled
Like ordinary people.
Smooth and shining,
Like the surface of a vast lake.
His sorrows are at an end.
Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 41-60
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 41-60
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
AFTERNOON
YOU MUST DISSOLVE
When full Conscious Awareness ‘is’ …
the mind has vanished as you know it.
There is no sense of
-planning
-fixing
-working on
-getting better
-being your best
… there is no ‘you.
When full Conscious Awareness ‘is’ …
the mind has vanished as you know it.
There is no sense of
-planning
-fixing
-working on
-getting better
-being your best
… there is no ‘you.
Love, for example … just IS.
IT emanates naturally as a radiance of Awareness
and not as an intentional thought projection.
You cannot ‘dance at two weddings’.
You cannot retain your personal identity … ‘and’ know Real Freedom,
‘you’ must dissolve into the God-SELF completely.
IT emanates naturally as a radiance of Awareness
and not as an intentional thought projection.
You cannot ‘dance at two weddings’.
You cannot retain your personal identity … ‘and’ know Real Freedom,
‘you’ must dissolve into the God-SELF completely.
While you remain in a body
and navigate the grand dream
you may possess many forms of identification,
but no such person will exist any longer.
This projected false self will have disappeared
back into the infinite ocean of ONE.
This is the only death you fear and must be accepted to return HOME.
John McIntosh
Posted April 15, 2019
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/you-must-dissolve
and navigate the grand dream
you may possess many forms of identification,
but no such person will exist any longer.
This projected false self will have disappeared
back into the infinite ocean of ONE.
This is the only death you fear and must be accepted to return HOME.
John McIntosh
Posted April 15, 2019
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/you-must-dissolve
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"The Hush of Not"
from-
Evil's Tender Kiss
ew
(Unpublished Archives)
"The Hush of Not"
from-
Evil's Tender Kiss
ew
(Unpublished Archives)
EPILOGUE
the hush of ‘not’
“it” couldn’t even be named depletion…it’s not a turbulent hell or chaos….just a VERY deadly quiet….no nothing….the “hush of waiting”…..not depression, not dark night of the soul, not life, not death…..just simply not…..
one “sees” and “knows” too much….nothing “human” seems to make a difference…and yet…because of the quiet…one has to wonder if the soul has been totally possessed…and then on wonders if it’s a possession by God or Satan…this is brand new….cannot say that I’m unhappy or disturbed…just quiet and waiting….nothing….Beyond The Silence.
watching others go thru their lives that appear to become more desperate and unhappy as their material illusions crumple around them…the only realities they’ve known….their souls seem to silently wail and cry to mine.
because they cannot hear their own souls, they are unable to perceive the Silent, Invisible decibels that respond from this soul….there is no clue that “something” is taking place at the necessary depth…….
but even that perception cannot, and must not, be trusted.
there is no Sense of anything personal or so-called human…only intense (Impersonal) Compassion and Love….but am helpless to make a difference on any level they Recognize.
Excerpt
(last page)
from
Evil’s Tender Kiss
ew
Cable Beach Apartment
approx. 1990
Nassau, Bahamas
the hush of ‘not’
“it” couldn’t even be named depletion…it’s not a turbulent hell or chaos….just a VERY deadly quiet….no nothing….the “hush of waiting”…..not depression, not dark night of the soul, not life, not death…..just simply not…..
one “sees” and “knows” too much….nothing “human” seems to make a difference…and yet…because of the quiet…one has to wonder if the soul has been totally possessed…and then on wonders if it’s a possession by God or Satan…this is brand new….cannot say that I’m unhappy or disturbed…just quiet and waiting….nothing….Beyond The Silence.
watching others go thru their lives that appear to become more desperate and unhappy as their material illusions crumple around them…the only realities they’ve known….their souls seem to silently wail and cry to mine.
because they cannot hear their own souls, they are unable to perceive the Silent, Invisible decibels that respond from this soul….there is no clue that “something” is taking place at the necessary depth…….
but even that perception cannot, and must not, be trusted.
there is no Sense of anything personal or so-called human…only intense (Impersonal) Compassion and Love….but am helpless to make a difference on any level they Recognize.
Excerpt
(last page)
from
Evil’s Tender Kiss
ew
Cable Beach Apartment
approx. 1990
Nassau, Bahamas
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