1. Nor earth nor
water, fire nor liquid air, nor ether, nor the powers, nor these
in one; undifferentiated, in dreamless perfect rest, that, the
One, final, blest, alone, am I.
2. Nor castes nor their divisions,
rite nor rule, are mine, nor fixing mind and thought and mood;
no longer dreaming things not Self art 'I' and 'mine,' that, the
One, final, blest, alone, am I.
3. Nor mother, father, nor the
gods and worlds, nor Scriptures, offerings, shrines are there,
they say, in dreamlessness abandoned by the lonely Self; that,
the One, final, blest, alone, am I.
4. Nor sectary of Cause or Lord
or Life knows That, nor follower of Saint or Rite, in perfect
union, pure of all but Self, that, the One, final, blest, alone,
am I.
5. Nor upward, downward, nor
within, without; nor midward, backward, That, nor east nor west;
all-present everywhere in partless unity, that, the One, final,
blest, alone, am I.
6. Nor white nor black nor
yellow, That, nor red; nor small nor very great nor short nor
long; formless, yet like a light, a star; that, the One, final,
blest, alone, am I.
7. Nor teacher, teaching,
learner, what is learned; nor thou nor I nor this expanded
world; conscious of its own form, from error free, that, the
One, final, blest, alone, am I.
8.Nor waking, mine, nor dream,
nor dreamless sleep; nor fire of life or heart or seeing soul;
these three are of unwisdom; but the fourth, that, the One,
final, blest, alone, am I.
9. Even expanded for the sake
of Self -- Self, that, still perfect, on no other rests -- all
the wide world besides is little worth. ahat, the One, final,
blest, alone, am I.
10. Nor is this first with any
second to it; nor lonely this, nor yet has it compeers; nor is
this secondless One void or filled with aught; how shall I tell
this perfect wisdom's crowd? |