0.
That's perfect Creator
This' perfect Creation From perfection can only come perfection
That minus this
Perfect!
1.
In all this
God is
In all this
God lives
Whatever's alive in life
It's all God's
By letting go
proprietorship Enjoy it
Don't be greedy for
what is others'
what isn't yours It's all yours
2.
Carry on working – do your duty –
Carry on living
This way –
and there's no other way –
Work won't get you down
What else is there here eh
Say all this is yours, Mani Rao, happy as you may be about that, you can't be idle for ever, and it won't hurt to work
Besides:
3.
Those who deny themselves
go to dark places visionless sunless
when they die
or
Those who deny God go
to demonic places
thick darkness
A warning for the lazy or suicidal? An argument against lack of faith?
Back to that which is perfect: Īśā
4.
Doesn't move and yet
Faster than thought
Not even the devās senses get it
devāh gods often interpreted as senses because gods illuminate senses
Way ahead of the curve
It stays put
Outruns everything else
In it
Wind supports activity
Because breath
5.
It moves
Doesn't move
Far away
Within
In everything
Outside everything
6.
The good news:
He who sees all beings in himself
And himself in all beings
Does not hate/hide
7.
When he knows all beings are himself
When he who sees unity
Where's the excitement the grief?
Nowhere
Switchback:
8, 9.
Omnipresent
Radiant
Bodiless – no sinews – unhurtably so
Pure Unflawed
Poet Omniscient Above-all
Self-born happened on his own
Runs things as they should be
10.
Is there a choice?
Those who lack knowledge enter darkness visionless
Those who relish knowledge all the more so
11.
Although
We heard from the wise
who spoke to us:
Knowledge is one thing
Lack of knowledge another
12.
But there's also
He who has both
How can you have both? Does not one cancel the other?
Because of the lack of knowledge crosses mṛtyu death
Because of knowledge reaches amṛtam deathlessness
Just what is aṃṛtaṃ? Deathlessness? Immortality? Fame? Ambrosia?
Does crossing mean to go through, or to go past? To die, or to overcome death?
13.
Sambhūti, asambhūti.
What do the terms mean?
What did the terms mean?
Creationism, Nature
Creationism, Evolutionism
Manifest, Unmanifest
Materialism, Idealism
Idealism, Materialism
Theism, Existentialism
Believer, Philosopher
Occurrence, Inertia
Belief, Disbelief
Perhaps:
Mere philosophers enter darkness visionless
Mere believers even more so
14.
Although
We heard from the wise
who spoke to us:
Philosophy is one thing
Faith another
15.
But there's also
He who knows both
Creation and Destruction
Because of Destruction crosses death
Because of Creation reaches deathlessness
Sounds like a win-win, but what does it mean?
Maybe one day the meaning will be clear, even obvious. As the next verse hopes:
16.
A golden lid covers the mouth of truth
Remove it O Sun
So it may be seen by the truthful and righteous
The Sun is the door to truth. Only the righteous go through.
17.
O' Pūṣān/Sun
One and only
Sage
O' Yama /God of Death & Dharma
O' Sūrya/Sun
O' Prajāpati/Creator
Remove these dazzling rays around you
Show your milder form – That – That Person –
Oh That I Am!
That's who I am!
18.
At the end
Breath to deathless air
Body to ash
Oḿ – Mind, remember what's been done – Mind, remember what's been done
19.
O Agni/Fire-God
You who know all the world's deeds
Take us to riches by an easy path
Take gnarly sins away
We say
Namaste
