Jnana Yoga 18
Praise and Thanksgiving
Thank You Aum. Thank Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank Bha. Thank You Gayathri.
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Our origin is You, no nation, creed, color, or race binds us in their illusions. We are spirit,
temporarily caught up in the illusion, Maya. In that illusion, we are thinking the self
is material and will return to dust.
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As we awaken out of Maya and return to sanity, after research, observation,
experimentation, deductive reasoning, and our spiritual practice, we see that the self is
never born and never dies. It is pure awareness, the observer of birth, growth, old-
age, disease, and death.
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Our origin is You, no nation, creed, color, or race binds us in their illusions. We are spirit,
temporarily caught up in the illusion, Maya. In that illusion, we are thinking the self
is material and will return to dust.
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Our entrapment in Maya began prior to, during, and after the time of conception. It is the
consequence of our own doing, our Karma. We are responsible for our condition.
This condition is a product of our thoughts. Always thinking of You purifies the
consciousness from which the thoughts emanates.
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We are eternal spirit, in quality one with You. The One, Eternal, Supreme Spirit, the
Absolute Awareness, which gives life, light, and power to all, is You. There is no concoction
that is not within You and that does not contain You.
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Gradually, as we think of You, and our consciousness is purified, freed from thoughts
and quieted again, we are empowered to meditate on You as Silence, and Awareness.
Slowly, we accomplish our ultimate goal: A return to You, the Eternal, Supreme,
Attributeless, Witness of all, including Its Self. This is a reawakening, a return to the Most
High, the Source and Foundation of all consciousness and awareness.
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When we are enlighten with the knowledge whereby ignorance of Self is destroyed, we are
reestablished in our Real Self, the Eternal, Omnipresent Peace which is the Supreme
Awareness, beyond all genders, designations and classifications.
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Your reign of Tranquility originates, pervades, and transcends the Earth and all the
Heavens. The Earth and all the Heavens are within You. Nonetheless, You can never
be contained by them.
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This Eternal, Omnipresent, Peace is You. It is the home we never really left, like the wave
that never really left the ocean. You are the Omnipresence we cannot, and do not want to
leave. Everything, including Maya is within Your Eternal Omnipresence.
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The True Self pervades, yet is beyond the field of action and inaction, dishonor and honor,
cause and effect, life and death, immanent and transcendent. We think of You as the
Supreme Intelligence within all, beyond all, and Aware of all.
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The ultimate goal of life, as spirit, is reunion with You, the eternal, Universal
Consciousness, Our Supreme Spirit. We think of You as the Indivisible, Undifferentiated,
Supreme Absolute, beyond all complete descriptions, Beyond the Beyond, ad infinitum.
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We think of You as the One Enduring Spiritual Principle, the All Attractive Love. Within
and beyond all genders, non-genders and species of life, You are the One Fundamental
Quintessence, the One that is within and beyond gross and subtle, nouns and pronouns.
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Our business is not to conquer or in any way control, cause trouble, nor even disturb the
illusory world in any way. For us, the illusory world is, always has been, and always will be
a place of ignorance where the suffering cycles of oppressive and exploitative birth, disease,
old - age and death are constantly taking place.
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Turning around, spiritual revolution, renewing of our consciousness, begins with, I am not
the temporary material body doing something. I am eternal spirit, beyond unity, non
unity, all dualitiues, bodily distinctions, languages, religion, nationalities and universalities,
doing nothing.
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