Chapter
2
Janaka
Truly
I am spotless and at peace, the awareness
beyond natural causality. All this time I
have been afflicted by delusion. 2.1
As
I alone give light to this body, so I do
to the world, As a result the whole world
is mine, or alternatively nothing is. 2.2
So
now abandoning the body and everything
else, by some good fortune or other my
true self becomes apparent. 2.3
Just
as waves, foam and bubbles are not
different from water, so all this which
has emanated from oneself, is no other
than oneself. 2.4
In
the same way that cloth is found to be
just thread when analysed, so when all
this is analysed it is found to be no
other than oneself. 2.5
Just
as the sugar produced from the juice of
the sugarcane is permeated with the same
taste, so all this, produced out of me, is
completely permeated with me. 2.6
From
ignorance of oneself, the world appears,
and by knowledge of oneself it appears no
longer. From ignorance of the rope a snake
appears, and by knowledge of it, it
appears no longer. 2.7
Shining
is my essential nature, and I am nothing
over and beyond that. When the world
shines forth, it is simply me that is
shining forth. 2.8
All
this appears in me imagined due to
ignorance, just as a snake appears in the
rope, the mirage of water in the sunlight,
and silver in mother of pearl. 2.9
All
this, which has originated out of me, is
resolved back into me too, like a jug back
into clay, a wave into water, and a
bracelet into gold. 2.10
How
wonderful I am! Glory be to me, for whom
there is no destruction, remaining even
beyond the destruction of the world from
Brahma down to the last clump of grass.
2.11
How
wonderful I am! Glory be to me, solitary
even though with a body, neither going or
coming anywhere, I who abide forever,
filling all that is. 2.12
How
wonderful I am! Glory be to me! There is
no one so clever as me! I who have borne
all that is forever, without even touching
it with my body! 2.13
How
wonderful I am! Glory be to me! I who
possess nothing at all, or alternatively
possess everything that speech and mind
can refer to. 2.14
Knowledge,
what is to be known, and the knower -
these three do not exist in reality. I am
the spotless reality in which they appear
because of ignorance. 2.15
Truly
dualism is the root of suffering. There is
no other remedy for it than the
realization that all this that we see is
unreal, and that I am the one stainless
reality, consisting of consciousness. 2.16
I
am pure awareness though through ignorance
I have imagined myself to have additional
attributes. By continually reflecting like
this, my dwelling place is in the
Unimagined. 2.17
For
me there is neither bondage nor
liberation. The illusion has lost its
basis and ceased. Truly all this exists in
me, though ultimately it does not even
exist in me. 2.18
I
have recognised that all this and my body
are nothing, While my true self is nothing
but pure consciousness, so what can the
imagination work on now? 2.19
The
body, heaven and hell, bondage and
liberation, and fear too, All this is pure
imagination. What is there left to do for
me whose very nature is consciousness?
2.20
Truly
I do not see dualism even in a crowd of
people. What pleasure should I have when
it has turned into a wilderness? 2.21
I
am not the body, nor is the body mine. I
am not a living being. I am consciousness.
It was my thirst for living that was my
bondage. 2.22
Truly
it is in the limitless ocean of myself,
that stimulated by the colourful waves of
the worlds everything suddenly arises in
the wind of consciousness. 2.23
It
is in the limitless ocean of myself, that
the wind of thought subsides, and the
trader-like living beings' world bark is
wrecked by lack of goods. 2.24
How
wonderful it is that in the limitless
ocean of myself the waves of living beings
arise, collide, play and disappear,
according to their natures. 2.25
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