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#2026 -
Typed from The
Truth Is, Sri H.W.L. Poonja,
Compiled and edited by Prashanti de Jager, pages
25 - 27, originally posted by Ben Hassine
Self
Self is what you are,
You are That
Fathomlessness in which
experience and concepts appear.
Self is the Moment
which has no coming or going.
It is the Heart, Atman,
Emptiness.
It shines to Itself, by
Itself, in Itself.
Self is what gives
breath to life,
you need not search for
It, It is Here.
You are That through
which you would search.
You are what
you are looking for!
And That is all it is.
Only Self is.
You were never born,
and though only desire takes birth,
Nothing has ever
happened, Nothing has ever existed!
This Nothingness you
are, and this is the Ultimate Truth.
You are totally alone
because Beauty alone is.
Only Self is.
You simply cannot deny
that you are Consciousness.
You dwell in the Lotus
of the Heart as Joy in Bliss.
Keep Quiet and you will
reveal your Self to your Self.
Self Knowledge is that
which is worth sacrificing anything for,
because everything else
is just a mirage rising out of Consciousness.
Self is the indweller
of all Beings,
so love of others is
Love of Self, your Self.
Self is the greatest
Love and the dearest of all lovers.
Love is the attraction
of Self to Self in Self.
There is nothing
besides this Love, this source of Joy.
See your own beauty and
you are this Indweller, this Love
and the beauty itself.
Neti, Neti; but
what you Are cannot be rejected.
It is Now only; waking
or sleeping or dreaming,
It is still the Now
which only Is.
Only Self is.
This present Moment is
Light, is Self.
This Moment is not
bondage or freedom.
It is most precious
beyond ideation.
This Moment is the
screen on which all projects.
It is always Still and
Untouched and it is out of time.
There is no difference
between the Ultimate and this Presence.
To be in this Moment
abandon all desires,
including the desire to
be in it.
That which has no name
or form
has millions of names:
Being, Awareness,
Bliss, Isness, Atman, Truth, self,
Auspiciousness, Beauty,
Freedom, Divine Love,
Fullness, Emptiness,
Consciousness, Nowness,
Effortlessness,
Hereness, Silence, Brahman.
As the tongue speaks
the word 'tongue'
so you speak these
names.
To avoid the veiling of
your nature with preconceptions,
Buddha spoke of self in
negative terms
like Anata, Untouched,
Unmanifest, Unseen,
Unapproachable,
Unknowable, and Unstained.
Before notions and
creations you exist,
so there are no words
for That beyond words
and language.
Self doesn't need to
understand Itself,
Freedom is before the
concept of freedom.
You are what remains
when the concepts of
'I', mind and past disappear.
Nothingness is no
concept.
Identify as
Peace-Beauty-Love, do not experience it.
Know, 'I am inactive,
the activity takes place in me,
I am That, I am the
screen, I never come and I never go'.
Identify as
Consciousness Itself.
If you do not forget
who you are,
this appearance of
activity is the Cosmic Dance.
Stay as 'I am', not as
what comes and goes.
The individual I-sense
is mind, but Being has no frontiers.
It is aware of
Itself Itself. Identify as being.
When
mind is pure you will see Self in all Beings.
Purify the mind by removing all concepts,
especially the concept of purity.
Then
Self reveals itself to the empty mind
which is Consciousness.
Ego and mind and all
creations arise out of Self as self,
even the ugliest of
doubts and the most separate of differences
rise from the beautiful
source as Isness.
In Self there are no
do's and don'ts.
If there is unhappiness
you are not unhappy,
you are the Untouched
Awareness of this unhappiness.
As waves are not
separate from ocean, nor rays from sun,
you are not separate
from Existence.
You are the moment in
which all is.
The Scriptures speak of
the three Holy rivers Within.
These are Existence,
Consciousness, and Bliss.
Being beyond thought
and effort
they cannot be
objectified or subjectified.
They are so dear, so
near, behind the retina and before breath.
You need not see This,
you are It.
You are not different
than Existence, than Being.
See Being everywhere by
not looking.
The Seeing is Being,
not the objects seen.
Consciousness is the
original Mother.
If you know this she
will take care of you
and give you Happiness
, Peace and Deathlessness.
This Mother we do not
recognise and this gets us into trouble.
This Unknown is your
nature, return to That
because the known will
give no lasting Peace,
no lasting Love.
Bliss is Eternal,
even though it appears
to arise when the mind dies.
Bliss is not an
experience, It is your nature.
This is the Heart of
the Wise.
This gift is always
calling to everyone,
'You are seated in the
Heart of all Beings'.
This is the Truth: Your
Face shines.