3.1
How can one worship Shiva the Absolute,
which is neither personal or impersonal,
which is both omni-formed and formless,
which is beyond love and hate,
merit and fault, passion and dispassion,
attachment and non-attachment?
Shiva has no attributes to worship.
Nor are there attributes it lacks.
3.2
Shiva the Absolute is devoid of colors
and is not white. It recognizes no diversity
and harbors no doubt.
It is not bound by cause and effect,
nor is it subject to imagination.
O dear friend, I am Shiva the Absolute!
Who is there to bow to solitary Self?
3.3
I am not the origin, nor am I the originator.
I am the ever-shining sun,
that which never is not.
I am not clouded nor clear,
bright nor dark, rooted nor rootless.
I am the ever-shining sun,
that which never is not.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.4
How can I say the indifferent One has desires?
How can I say the ever-free Self has attachments?
How can I say the void Absolute has substance?
How can I say the perceivable All
does or does not have reality?
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.5
How can I describe That which is beyond duality
and non-duality? What is there to talk about?
How can I say That which is beyond existence and non-existence is or is not eternal?
All is Unknowing. All is Mystery.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.6
Atman is neither gross nor subtle.
It has no highs or lows.
Atman neither appears nor disappears.
It has no beginning, no middle, no end.
This is the Absolute Truth of Reality.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.7
Realize that sense-objects
are without substance, like space.
So are the sense organs that perceive them.
Realize that the Atman is beyond the bondage
of appearances, beyond even liberation from it.
Never doubt this. I am Love-Truth-Awareness,
boundless as sky.
3.8
Dear one, I am not hidden or difficult to comprehend.
I am not inscrutable or inaccessible.
I am Here, available for Seeing!
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.9
I have no karma.
I am the fire in which all karma is consumed.
I have no sorrow.
I am the fire in which all sorrow is consumed.
I have no body.
I am the fire in which all bodies –
gross, subtle and causal – are consumed.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.10
I have no sin.
I am the fire that burns the sins of the sinless.
I have no attributes.
I am the fire in which attributes disappear.
I have no limitations. I am the fire
in which bondage and freedom evaporate.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.11
Dear one, mind is not absent from me,
nor can I be said to have them.
I am not devoid of thoughts and feelings,
nor can I be said to have them.
I am not separate from existence,
nor can I be said to exist.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.12
I am beyond illusion.
I cannot even imagine a state of delusion.
I am beyond joy and sorrow.
I do not know them at all.
I have no desire or greed.
There is nothing I lack or want.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.13
The creeper vine of worldly life
does not entangle me.
The vast array of pleasures and contentments
do not tempt me.
The bondage of ignorance does not ensnare me.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.14
The entire expanse of worldly passions
causes no ripple in Me.
The entire expanse of worldly sorrows
causes no ripple in Me.
The entire expanse of worldly goodness
causes no ripple in Me.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.15
I am not the source of actions
resulting in misery and regret,
nor am I the ego-mind
that suffers misery and regret.
Even that which causes the ego-mind to arise
is not me.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.16
I am the death of movement
in the unmoving One.
I neither think nor decide, nor am I indecisive.
I am the death of sleep and wakefulness.
I am neither good nor evil, moving nor still,
substantial nor ephemeral.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.17
I cannot be known, nor can I know.
I am not the way of knowing.
I am invisible to the mind,
imperceptible to the senses,
unapproachable through words.
How can I transmit This to you?
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.18
I am the Supreme Reality,
forever whole and undivided.
I have no inside or outside,
nor any other imaginings of duality.
Before anything was, I Am. I never am not.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.19
I am the Supreme Reality, devoid of passion,
jealousy, hatred, and all the other trappings of body,
mind and gods. Though I contain the miseries
and sufferings of the imaginary world,
I am not touched by them.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.20
I am the Supreme Reality.
In a realm where the three states
of consciousness do not apply,
how can there be a fourth state of transcendence?
In a realm with no center or edges,
how can there be up or down,
north or south, east or west?
In a realm without beginning, middle or end,
how can there be past, present or future?
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.21
In Self, there are no divisions or separate objects,
neither massive or minute.
There is no difference between long and short,
wide and narrow, angular or round.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.22
I have no father, no mother, no children,
no kinsmen. I was never born and cannot die.
I never had a mind.
I am forever tranquil and untroubled.
3.23
My nature is clear and infinite,
beyond ideas of purity and stain.
I am indefinable, unattached, unknowable.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.24
If I am the undivided One – and I am –
how can there be Brahma and all the many gods?
How can there be residents of heaven and earth?
How can there be heaven and earth?
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.25
I am Supreme Reality.
How can I say I am “this,” or “not this,”
or neither or both. I am beyond all that.
How can I say I am time-bound or eternal?
How can I say I have a body
or do not have a body? I am beyond all that.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.26
I perform no actions, yet my activity is endless.
I have no attachments, yet I love all things.
I have no body, yet I enjoy endless pleasure.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.27
The phenomenal stage-play of Maya
does not disturb me.
Deceit and arrogance do not disturb me.
Tyranny and evil do not affect me.
Truth and untruth are the same to me.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.28
Divisions of time like morning and twilight
do not exist in me.
I am ever-present,
and not contained by time.
I have no knowledge to impart,
but I am not deaf or mute.
I am free of ignorance,
but know the ways of thought.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.29
I am not a master, nor do I have a master.
I am unperplexed. I am beyond mind
and no-mind, forever undisturbed.
I am beyond all dualities – truly unshakable.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.30
How can I say, “This is a forest,”
or “This is a temple”?
How can I say something is proven or doubtful?
I am motionless, all-pervading, indifferent.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.31
I am not alive, nor am I lifeless.
Not bound by such dualities, I light eternity.
I have no origin, nor does anything originate from me.
Not bound by such dualities, I light eternity.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.32
Not bound by birth and death, I light eternity.
Not trapped in worldly existence, I light eternity.
No subject to creation and destruction,
I light eternity.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.33
You are Self. You have no name or form,
nor even an allusion to them.
You are no-thing,
and have no substance whatsoever.
O shameless mind,
how can you continuously complain?
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.34
Dear heart, why do you weep?
In you there is no old age and death.
In you there is no birth and misery.
Dear heart, why do you weep?
In you, Changeless One,
nothing is never not perfect.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.35
Dear heart, why do you weep?
For in you there is no form or emptiness.
Dear heart, why do you weep?
For you there is no deformity or beauty,
no aging, no passing of time.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.36
Dear heart, why do you weep?
You have no age.
Dear heart, why do you weep?
You have no mind.
Dear heart, why do you weep?
You have no senses.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.37
Dear heart, why do you weep?
You have no lust.
Dear heart, why do you weep?
You have no greed.
Dear heart, why do you weep?
You have no illusion.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.38
Why do you desire wealth?
You have no property to secure.
Why do you desire wealth?
You have no wife to support.
Why do you desire wealth?
You have no capacity to possess.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.39
The created world of illusion
is not my doing nor yours.
It belongs to the shameless mind.
There are no different things
in That which you truly are
3.40
In Self there is not one iota of attachment
or non-attachment, not one iota of passion
or dispassion, not one iota of desire.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.41
In Self there is no observer or observing,
nor are there objects of observation.
In Self there is no inside or out,
no space, no matter, no time.
In Self there is no Samadhi.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.42
I have conveyed to you the essence of Truth.
There is no you. There is no me.
There is no great being, guru or disciple.
Supreme Reality is astoundingly simple,
and absolutely spontaneous.
I am Love-Truth-Awareness, boundless as sky.
3.43
If the Supreme One alone exists,
clear and empty like sky,
how can there be a higher supreme one?
If it is Ultimate Truth itself
that is all-pervading like space,
how can there be a superior ultimate truth?
How can you hope to find it
through knowledge and intuition?
3.44
Realize undifferentiated Awareness,
which is void of fire, which has no air,
earth or water.
Realize undifferentiated Awareness,
which is stiller than still, which is vast
and endless as space.
3.45
I am not formless, nor do I lack form.
I am neither beautiful nor ugly, pure nor impure.
My Nature is mine alone.
3.46
Renounce the world! Renounce renunciation!
Renounce non-renunciation!
Surrender the poison of ego-ideas
about shunning or accepting Maya.
You are Self – immaculate, immutable, immortal.