PEACE (part 2)
Seeing everything is imagination, knowing the Self as timelessly free,
the sage lives as a child.
Knowing himself as Absolute, knowing existence and non-existence
to be imagination only, what is there for the desireless one
to learn, say or do?
Knowing for certain that all is Self, the sage has no trace of thoughts
such as “I am this” or “I am not that.”
The yogi who finds stillness is neither distracted nor focused.
He knows neither pleasure nor pain. Ignorance dispelled,
he is free of knowing.
Heaven or poverty, gain or loss, society or solitude, to the yogi free of conditioning
there is no difference.
Religious merit, sensory pleasure, worldly prosperity, discrimination between
this and that— these have no significance to the yogi free of opposites
such as “I do this” and “this I do not.”
The yogi who is liberated while living has no duties in this world, no attachments in
his heart. His life proceeds without him.
For the great soul who abides beyond desire, where is illusion? Where is the universe?
Where is meditation on That? Where even is liberation from them?
He who sees the world may try to renounce it. But what can the desireless one do?
He sees there is nothing to see.
He who has seen the Supreme Brahma thinks, “I am Brahma.” But he who has
transcended all thought, what can he think? He knows no other than Self.
He achieves self-control who sees his own distraction. But the great soul is not distracted.
He has nothing to achieve. He has nothing to do.
The man of Knowledge may live as an ordinary man, but he is not.
He sees he is neither focused nor distracted,
and finds no fault with himself.
(will be continued ..... Bows)
Seeing everything is imagination, knowing the Self as timelessly free,
the sage lives as a child.
Knowing himself as Absolute, knowing existence and non-existence
to be imagination only, what is there for the desireless one
to learn, say or do?
Knowing for certain that all is Self, the sage has no trace of thoughts
such as “I am this” or “I am not that.”
The yogi who finds stillness is neither distracted nor focused.
He knows neither pleasure nor pain. Ignorance dispelled,
he is free of knowing.
Heaven or poverty, gain or loss, society or solitude, to the yogi free of conditioning
there is no difference.
Religious merit, sensory pleasure, worldly prosperity, discrimination between
this and that— these have no significance to the yogi free of opposites
such as “I do this” and “this I do not.”
The yogi who is liberated while living has no duties in this world, no attachments in
his heart. His life proceeds without him.
For the great soul who abides beyond desire, where is illusion? Where is the universe?
Where is meditation on That? Where even is liberation from them?
He who sees the world may try to renounce it. But what can the desireless one do?
He sees there is nothing to see.
He who has seen the Supreme Brahma thinks, “I am Brahma.” But he who has
transcended all thought, what can he think? He knows no other than Self.
He achieves self-control who sees his own distraction. But the great soul is not distracted.
He has nothing to achieve. He has nothing to do.
The man of Knowledge may live as an ordinary man, but he is not.
He sees he is neither focused nor distracted,
and finds no fault with himself.
(will be continued ..... Bows)
