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 1-20
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 1-20
NOTHING IS THE SAME
AS IT WAS
AND YET…
IT IS FOREVERMORE
ALWAYS THE SAME
AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
∞
AH!
THE TOTALITY
OF
RELIEF SANS BELIEF
∞
ew
1:54 AM-4/14/19
AS IT WAS
AND YET…
IT IS FOREVERMORE
ALWAYS THE SAME
AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
∞
AH!
THE TOTALITY
OF
RELIEF SANS BELIEF
∞
ew
1:54 AM-4/14/19
Chapter 18
The Master
1
Love your true Self,
Which is naturally happy
And peaceful and bright!
Awaken to your own nature,
And all delusion melts like a dream.
The Master
1
Love your true Self,
Which is naturally happy
And peaceful and bright!
Awaken to your own nature,
And all delusion melts like a dream.
2
How much pleasure you take
In acquiring worldly goods!
But to find happiness
You must give them all up.
How much pleasure you take
In acquiring worldly goods!
But to find happiness
You must give them all up.
3
The sorrows of duty,
Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart.
But let stillness fall on you
With its sweet and cooling showers,
And you will find happiness.
The sorrows of duty,
Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart.
But let stillness fall on you
With its sweet and cooling showers,
And you will find happiness.
4
For the world is nothing.
It is only an idea.
But the essence of what is
And of what is not
Can never fail.
For the world is nothing.
It is only an idea.
But the essence of what is
And of what is not
Can never fail.
5
The Self is always the same,
Already fulfilled,
Without flaw or choice or striving.
Close at hand,
But boundless.
The Self is always the same,
Already fulfilled,
Without flaw or choice or striving.
Close at hand,
But boundless.
6
When the Self is known,
All illusions vanish.
The veil falls,
And you see clearly.
Your sorrows are dispelled.
When the Self is known,
All illusions vanish.
The veil falls,
And you see clearly.
Your sorrows are dispelled.
7
For the Self is free
And lives forever.
Everything else is imagination,
Nothing more!
Because he understands this,
The master acts like a child.
For the Self is free
And lives forever.
Everything else is imagination,
Nothing more!
Because he understands this,
The master acts like a child.
8
When you know you are God
And that what is and what is not
Are both imaginary,
And you are at last free of desire,
Then what is there left
To know or to say or to do?
When you know you are God
And that what is and what is not
Are both imaginary,
And you are at last free of desire,
Then what is there left
To know or to say or to do?
9
For the Self is everything.
When the seeker knows this,
He falls silent.
He no longer thinks,
"I am this, I am not that."
Such thoughts melt away.
For the Self is everything.
When the seeker knows this,
He falls silent.
He no longer thinks,
"I am this, I am not that."
Such thoughts melt away.
10
He is still.
Without pleasure or pain,
Distraction or concentration,
Learning or ignorance.
He is still.
Without pleasure or pain,
Distraction or concentration,
Learning or ignorance.
11
His nature is free of conditions.
Win or lose,
It makes no difference to him.
Alone in the forest or out in the world,
A god in heaven or a simple beggar,
It makes no difference!
His nature is free of conditions.
Win or lose,
It makes no difference to him.
Alone in the forest or out in the world,
A god in heaven or a simple beggar,
It makes no difference!
12
He is free of duality.
Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or discrimination
Mean nothing to him.
What does he care
What is accomplished or neglected?
He is free of duality.
Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or discrimination
Mean nothing to him.
What does he care
What is accomplished or neglected?
13
Finding freedom in this life,
The seeker takes nothing to heart,
Neither duty nor desire.
He has nothing to do
But to live out his life.
Finding freedom in this life,
The seeker takes nothing to heart,
Neither duty nor desire.
He has nothing to do
But to live out his life.
14
The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire.
Delusion or the world,
Meditation on the truth,
Liberation itself--
What are they to him?
The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire.
Delusion or the world,
Meditation on the truth,
Liberation itself--
What are they to him?
15
You see the world
And you try to dissolve it.
But the master has no need to.
He is without desire.
For though he sees,
He sees nothing.
You see the world
And you try to dissolve it.
But the master has no need to.
He is without desire.
For though he sees,
He sees nothing.
Continuing last 5 Verses this Afternoon
AFTERNOON
16
When you have seen God
You meditate on Him,
Saying to yourself, "I am He."
But when you are without thought
And you understand there is only one,
Without a second,
On whom can you meditate?
When you have seen God
You meditate on Him,
Saying to yourself, "I am He."
But when you are without thought
And you understand there is only one,
Without a second,
On whom can you meditate?
17
When you are distracted,
You practice concentration.
But the master is undistracted.
He has nothing to fulfill.
What is there left for him to accomplish?
When you are distracted,
You practice concentration.
But the master is undistracted.
He has nothing to fulfill.
What is there left for him to accomplish?
18
He acts like an ordinary man.
But inside he is quite different.
He sees no imperfection in himself,
Nor distraction,
Nor any need for meditation.
He acts like an ordinary man.
But inside he is quite different.
He sees no imperfection in himself,
Nor distraction,
Nor any need for meditation.
19
He is awake,
Fulfilled,
Free from desire.
He neither is nor is not.
He looks busy,
But he does nothing.
He is awake,
Fulfilled,
Free from desire.
He neither is nor is not.
He looks busy,
But he does nothing.
20
Striving or still,
He is never troubled.
He does whatever comes his way,
And he is happy.
Striving or still,
He is never troubled.
He does whatever comes his way,
And he is happy.
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 1-20
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 1-20
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
from Rumi:
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.
This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?
Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/114283-all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/114283-all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i
S K Y- C I R C L E S
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn that?
They fall, and falling,
they’re given wings.
Rumi
Trans Coleman Barks
Full book/pdf below
http://www.venerabilisopus.org/en/books-samael-aun-weor-gnostic-sacred-esoteric-spiritual/pdf/100/171_rumi-the-book-of-love.pdf
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn that?
They fall, and falling,
they’re given wings.
Rumi
Trans Coleman Barks
Full book/pdf below
http://www.venerabilisopus.org/en/books-samael-aun-weor-gnostic-sacred-esoteric-spiritual/pdf/100/171_rumi-the-book-of-love.pdf
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Rumi
I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Rumi
Let silence be the art you practice.
Rumi
Rumi
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