October 23

Whatever you think of intently for a considerable time, that you experience: or you rest in peace and experience that peace.

October 24

I am a particle of consciousness but I am one with the infinite consciousness on account of the realization of this truth, even as water is the same as water.

October 25

The pure consciousness (cidakasa) brings into being this diversity with all its names and forms, without ever abandoning its indivisibility, just as you create a world in your dream.

October 26

You and I are consciousness, the entire world is consciousness: by this realization the creation is seen as an integral part of consciousness and therefore uncreated.

October 27

The aggregate of the five senses and desire is known as the jiva, which is of the nature of pure consciousness endowed with life force. This jiva exists therefore in everything and hence he experiences everything everywhere. 

October 28

When thus the world is experienced as pure consciousness, then it is not an object of perception; therefore there is no subject or observer either, there is no experience or experiencer....Though it seems to be a firm reality, it is essentially devoid of space and time. Though it seems to be diverse, yet it is non-dual--diverse and nothing at the same time.

October 29

Just as a mirror reflects whatever is put in front of it, even so, consciousness takes on the form of whatever is presented to it. However, one who has realized that everything is the pure, infinite consciousness is not affected by the apparent duality. He remains free, alone and unaffected. One who never loses the knowledge of oneness is not troubled by this goblin known as perception of difference or division. 

October 30

The waking state experience seems to have a definite causality: but that notion itself is a dream. For all this is mere appearance of the infinite consciousness.

October 31

...the relative form is but a passing cloud.

November 1

You were a dream-object before; but since you assumed that this is the waking state, you became a householder with a family and relations, etc.

November 2

I do not desire death nor do I wish to live. I am what I am, free from mental agitation.

November 3

Only by constant practice does this truth become fully established.

November 4

Whatever one knows in his own heart and whatever one experiences again and again in his heart, so that it becomes a habit, materializes whether it be good or not good.

November 5

There is nothing that one who strives without agitation cannot achieve.

November 6

This universe is movement of awareness in the infinite consciousness, or the Lord. Hence, both hope and hopelessness are irrelevant to it. O wise men, be what you are.

November 7

What a whirlpool is to water, the body is to supreme truth. The appearance is pervaded by the reality, and the appearance is but an appearance, without a substantiality of its own. There is no division, distinction or contradiction between the two. Yet, the infinite consciousness appears to be this creation full of contradictions--this is indeed a great wonder. 

November 8

Realize that this world-appearance with all its contradictions is nothing more than appearance which is non-existent. That infinite and indivisible consciousness exists as one thing here and another thing there; therefore there is neither diversity nor even unity. There is no contradiction nor is there a non-contradiction.

November 9

They who know the truth realize that it is neither real nor unreal: hence, they realize the truth as utter silence. What is seen here as the objective universe is in truth the supreme Brahman. 

November 10

Though this consciousness may be fully awake and enlightened, its object continues to appear to be, even as darkness continues till dawn. But whether the world-appearance is real or unreal, when the truth is realized there is great peace. Even as ripples and spray arise on the surface of the ocean, seem to exist for a moment and then get merged in the ocean the next minute, this world appears in Brahman and ceases to be the next moment, for Brahman alone is real. 

November 11

When the truth is realized, this objective world ceases to bother you even if it continues to be seen and even if it is full of restlessness.

November 12

If one's feet are covered with leather shoes, the entire world is covered with leather.

November 13

Hence, realize I am at peace, I am like the infinite space;" abandon the notion that you are the jiva. If one cannot redeem oneself, there are no other means: for one is one's own friend and one is one's own enemy. Strive to liberate yourself while you are yet young with the help of pure and right understanding, or buddhi. Do it now.

November 14

When one's awareness is raised to one's heart and set firmly in the pure consciousness, the mind naturally and effortlessly becomes tranquil.

November 15

Be firmly rooted in the contented state in which you know only that to be yours which is obtained in the course of the due performance of your own appropriate action. He is a man of self-conquest who rests in peace and contentment performing what has to be performed and avoiding what should be avoided....When there is direct experience of the truth that "I am neither the doer nor the action nor the instrument, but I am the pure consciousness and the world is indefinable," then it is known that there is self-awareness....When one's awareness is thus firmly held within oneself, the mind abandons its usual restlessness and flows toward wisdom. 

November 16

The many abandons its diversity when it attains enlightenment. However, when it (the many) is described as the one, it has not become something other than it was before. It is the same in all conditions and states.

November 17

Knowledge of the self, knowledge of the unreal, absence of knowledge, knowledge that the truth is other than the appearance--all these are but the play of the infinite consciousness and they are the manifestations or expansions of self-knowledge. 

November 18

"This is the self" and "this is knowledge"--these are surely false notions that arise within, but they are not real. Abandon the words but remain established in the experience of the truth they indicate.

November 19

In fact there is neither dream nor waking state nor sleep nor turiya nor something beyond: everything is pure tranquility and silence.

November 20

Let this consciousness shine as it will: it is neither real nor unreal, neither something nor nothing....Consider it OM and rest in peace.

November 21

If you still ask, "Why then is this futile experience of the objects?", it is good to remind yourself that this is but a long dream....This creation is non-different from the infinite consciousness....It is analogous to the dream which is a daily universal experience: hence one should investigate it. What is the essence or the reality in the dream except the pure intelligence or consciousness in which it exists? 

November 22

He is a liberated one who rejoices in pure consciousness itself, as well as the objective world....He is said to rest in consciousness. His doubts have been dissolved and his contact with all the objects of the world is flavored with wisdom....He has dispelled the notion of the world from his heart and he has reached fullness. 

November 23

That consciousness is with form and it is without form--all these are words and meaningless concepts....That supreme state is beyond all concepts, even those of "mass of consciousness" and "void"; it is devoid of everything but it is also full of everything....The Creator is only the mind, devoid of any trace of materiality.

November 24

In it one remains firmly rooted in self-knowledge, without the least agitation. It is also known as eternal sleep, turiya, nirvana and moksa.

November 25

The realization that the objective universe does not exist is perfect awakening. It does not resemble a state of inertia, nor deep sleep, nor nirvikalpa samadhi nor savikalpa samadhi, nor is it an unreal imaginary state....In it the universe exists, but it is dissolved at the same time. In it there are no concepts of unity, diversity, their mixture and their non-existence. In it there is supreme peace.

November 26

Even after this (creation), there is pure, unconditioned bliss....It is beyond description. At the end of the investigation utter silence alone remains....Therefore, know the truth as it is, as supreme peace, and know that it is unborn and undying space....The peace in the sky is pure void.

November 27

This scripture dispels illusion and enables you to realize that the ordinary life itself is the supreme state....One can resort to the study of any other scripture dealing with self-knowledge and final liberation . But one should not waste one's lifetime.

November 28

Even if all this is seen, nothing is seen because all this is but a dream. Who is the perceiver here, what is perceived, how can there be duality in the infinite being? 

November 29

When one dreams of being robbed and when one knows that it was but a dream, there is no sorrow: even so, when the truth is realized one is freed from sorrow.

November 30

All this is pure consciousness, which experiences these apparent solid substances as one experiences dream-objects. 

December 1

When one's mind rests in the supreme reality or the infinite consciousness, then one engages himself in righteous activity....One should not waste one's lifetime....In its liberated state it is all, peace, tranquility--enough of such descriptions!

December 2

That which is called the world is pure void. What is, and in what it is and from what it is, that which is all, exists everywhere at all times.

December 3

Now arise and do what has to be done. I shall resume my contemplation; for without such contemplation there is contact with sorrow....The truth does not become clear in you until it is heard again and again and meditated upon again and again.

December 4

Be as you are, free from distress.

December 5

There are no two things known as Brahman and the objective universe: they are one like space and void....This [creation] continues till the person attains liberation and realizes that this world-appearance has been a long dream....Though the infinite consciousness is indivisible, it experiences within itself the two states of bondage and liberation: the dream-like experience of diversity known as bondage and the sleep-like state as liberation.

December 6

What is exists firmly established in the supreme peace like the center of a rock.

December 7

The infinite consciousness becomes aware of a part of its own being and thus awareness arises in it. This is followed by the notion of relationship, the word and its corresponding object. Since this awareness is endowed with the faculty to observe and examine what it observes, it is recognized as consciousness....Out of this mass of consciousness arise jiva and all the rest of it....They are but the materialization of notions or ideas that arise in the infinite consciousness, not real entities....Though unreal as independent substances they appear to be real as in a dream.  

December 8

For nothing is ever created. Everything is but pure void which pervades all....When there is the notion of reality in unreal phenomena, there is bondage. When many such notions arise, then diversity is brought into being.

December 9

When there is full awakening, the dullness of intelligence comes to an end. Then liberation which is formless, peaceful and real comes into being. 

December 10

Knowledge does not have an object to know. Knowledge is independent and eternal. It is beyond description and definition. When this truth is directly realized there is perfect knowledge....Full awakening or enlightenment is jnana or knowledge. Its contemplation is the means to such awakening.

December 11

The light of the enlightened itself is self-awareness. The apparent division or duality is like the wind and its movement.
Rama said: If that is the truth, then is it not possible to accept the existence of diversity (the knower, the knowledge and the object of knowledge) on the basis of the analogy that the ocean and the waves are non-different?
Vasistha replied: If that is accepted, then there is no defect in division, though the truth is that the reality is one indivisible consciousness.

December 12

The conviction in the reality of the object of experience alone is bondage. It is enough to know that the object does not exist. Since consciousness is all, there is neither bondage nor liberation.

December 13

For want of a cause and also because the one infinite peace alone exists, there is no illusion either. You do not rest in that peace because you have not repeatedly contemplated this truth,

December 14

Just as the nightmare and the sorrow caused by it cease when one wakes up, the sorrow caused by the perception of the world-illusion ceases when one wakes up from that illusion and consequently refrains from acquiring and clinging to the objects of the world.

December 15

By examining the "before" and "after" the solidity of substances ceases. By contemplation of the truth that it is even so in dream, the belief in the grossness of these substances ceases....In his vision the unreal world-appearance has the character of a castle in the air or a painting which has been washed by rain--his mind is free from vasana or psychological conditioning.

December 16

The mind (cittam) is the support for the dream-objects and hence they are mind only. Even so is the world....The mind is non-different from the mass of pure consciousness. There is naught else. 

December 17

I am enlightened and all my perverse thoughts have been put at rest. I am at peace and equanimous. I am that, and I see this world as pure void. ...I am nirvana. I am free from doubt. I am free. I am blissful. I am as I am as the infinite. I am the all at all times or I am nothing and at peacr.

December 18

The enlightenment is not brought about by buddhi or intellect. Nor is it attained by the suppression of the intellect. Enlightenment is not aware of itself for it is not an object of awareness. ...The awakening or the enlightenment happens by itself, just like the sun's brilliance at noon.

December 19

He is forever engaged in meditation, he is always established in his own real nature....For one who rests in his own self and rejoices in the self, in whom cravings have eased and egosense is absent, life becomes non-volitional and there is perfect purity.

December 20

Brahman alone is, just as the sky is one though it is void, it is undivided and it is blue....The distinction between the organs and the organism is arbitrary and verbal, even so that between Brahman and the universe. The former is; the latter is not. When this is realized, there is cessation of cravings and supreme truth which is nirvana.

December 21

All cravings and desires come to an end in the awakened person; therefore nirvana arises in him without his desiring it. He is forever engaged in meditation; he is always established in his own real nature: therefore he does not seek anything or reject anything. Like a lamp in whose light all actions take place and in which the lamp itself is not interested, he lives and acts but is free of volition. 

December 22

The unreality which seems to exist here disappears when it is not conceived or thought of. This supreme peace is nirvana and this is the supreme truth.

December 23

When dream is realized as dream, the false notion vanishes. Awareness drops its object (the world) and rests in the infinite consciousness.

December 24

This supreme truth is established only in total silence, not by logic, discussion and argumentation.

December 25

By the practice of the precepts of the scriptures, the mind becomes pure and trasnsparent; then, without even wishing for it, one sees the supreme truth.

December 26

One should live in this world fully established in the state of equanimity which confers all blessings and which bestows the highest consolation, which is the greatest wealth and which enhances one's good fortune. Equanimity enables purity to grow.

December 27

Such deluded experience does not cease until one resorts to the right means of liberation and attains awakening, when the mental conditioning ceases and the consciousness becomes unconditioned.

December 28

The world has arisen like a dream. What is known as the waking state reality is a dream; it is non-different from the consciousness which is the sole reality. Hence, the world is truly without form. 

December 29

The visible universe remains as it is, but ceases to be an object of consciousness; it merges in the infinite consciousness....Therefore, the knowers of this truth live here as if they are walking trees....Where is the need to be confused and confounded? Abandon the pursuit of the fruits of actions. You are enlightened. Do not exert yourself in vain pursuit.

December 30

Since this creation is (like movement and wind) non-different from Brahman, Brahman does not know it as an object....Both appearance and non appearance are aspects of consciousness, just as when your form is reflected in water, for instance, the reflection is temporary and your form is not.

December 31

What I have said to you and what you have studied in the scripture, now bring into harmony with your own direct experience....I realize that all these objects of the world exist in the infinite consciousness like waves in the ocean. Hence I shall live a life of spontaneous non-volitional activity.