Jnana Yoga 17
Praise and Thanksgiving
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayatri.
1
You are the source of our Ancient Glory.
When we have awaken beyond the sense
of a separate self, a self of designations,
we meditate on You as the Subject,
the Source.
2
Silence, Stillness, and Light are
objects whose subject, Source, is You.
This is why You cannot be seen,
only experienced as the Self.
3
You are never just the object.
Although You pervade them, You,
the Eternal Subject, the Source,
simultaneously transcend all subjects.
4
You are the Eternal, Infinite, and Most Pure.
Other than You, all are subjects. By
associating with You, our purification and
raising back to our original nature is
automatic.
5
As our consciousness is cleansed of anger,
lust, and greed. We see how to get out and
stay out of Maya, our negative predicament.
The solution, the way out of Maya, is to
always think of You. In this way, we
associate with You and rise.
6
You pervade and transcend all cosmic
webs and Galaxes. More subtle than the
aether; pervading and transcending the
space between subatomic particles, and
thoughts, You, Divine Intelligence, are
the greatest of all
7
You are Divine Intelligence, within and
beyond Gravity and Electromagnetism.
The more we associate with You, the
more we return to consciousness of this
Eternal Peace, our original,
constitutional position.
8
Constant remembrance of You is associating
with You and cleaning our consciousness of the
contamination of bodily designation, illusory
identification, Maya
9
This spiritual practice is awakening us out
of Maya to the barely describable, Tranquil
Bliss of the Self.
10
You are our Highest, the Most Present
Consciousness. To the degree we resurrect
to our original Pure consciousness, Clear
Awareness, and Divine Intelligence, we
regain fulfillment and Peace.
11
We regain our original consciousness,
awareness, and intelligence, by
associating with You. As this happens,
we are ever more centered and
balanced.
12
By virtue of Your association, we are
Centered and balanced in You. Hence,
we are able to remain the same in the
face of loss or gain, pleasure or pain,
and other repulsions, attractions and
attachments of the illusory worlds,
Maya.
13
Thank You for accepting this humble
offering. This spiritual practice helps us
remember You, turn to You and be saved.
14
To be saved means to redeem our
consciousness, awareness, and
intelligence from the illusory hells of
repeated birth, death, and rebirth,
Maya.
15
The major psychological impairment at
the root of our spiritual slavery, being
entangled in Maya, is the belief that the
self is a material, mental, intellectual, or
ego entity.
16
The real Self or Divine Intelligence, is
beyond description but not beyond
experience. Surely, It pervades and
transcends everything: Consciousness,
awareness, everything, nothing, and
transcendence.
17
Persistence in this spiritual practice of
associating with You, gives us glimpses of
Your awesome magnificence and makes us
ever stronger in our patience and
determination to realize You, here, now, in
this moment.
18
Awakening and rising out of Maya, we are
realizing, what to us is the ultimate goal of
life, conscious union with You. The first step
in this journey to the Self is the spiritual
purification practice of always thinking of
You, thereby, associating with You.