Jnana Yoga 3
Praise And Thanksgiving


Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayathri.

1
We think of You as the Greatest Intelligence.
To us, You are the Source and Ultimate
Witness of the birth, evolution, and dissolution
of the Cosmic Manifestations within which
are the enumerable Solar Systems.
2
We think of You as within, above, and beyond
all. We meditate on You as Supreme Awareness,
pervading and transcending the body, mind,
intellect, ego, and all Consciousness, Energy, or
Spirit. You are the eternal Source of our Self-
Esteem and our undying Friend and Teacher.

3
We think of You as the Supreme Mother, Father,
sibling, child, friend, and casual associate. Thank
You, Supreme Power, for teaching us how to
cleanse, expand, and raise our consciousness by
always thinking of You.
4
Thank You for teaching us our universal history,
and our ancient spiritual practice of recognizing
and thanking You in all we think, feel, will, say
and do.
5
We keep the wheels of our spiritual practice
rolling by fixing our intelligence on You.
Thank You for showing us how to purify our
intelligence and common sense by always
thinking of You.
6
In our insanity we want material sense
gratification and peace through those
brigands: Senses, mind, intellect, and ego.
In our sanity, we strive for You and You
alone, having experienced many times that
there is lasting satisfaction, fulfillment, and
Peace in only You, and You alone.
7
All Thanks to You for helping us to know our
self, to be our self, and to help our self. Thank
You for helping us to comprehend why the truly
wise, who know the self as spirit, lament neither
for the living nor the dead.
8
We are grateful to You for revealing to us the
fact that the major psychological impairment,
at the root of our spiritual pathology is the
mistaken belief that the self is a material,
mental, an intellectual or ego entity.
9
The more we return to sanity, through
purification of awareness we realize that our
biggest mistakes lie in considering the illusory
body, consciousness, awareness, ordinary
intellect, as the self, rather than the Eternal
Divine Intelligence.
10
In our enlightened consciousness and
awareness, we see the self as spirit, energy,
or intelligence, and You as Eternal Spirit
or Energy, never destroyed nor created.

11
You are the Eternal Center-less Center,
the Infinite Intelligence above consciousness
and awareness. Please accept our most
humble, obeisances from all sides, from
above and below, inside and out.
12
Thank You for accepting our homage and
our honest attempts at restoring our Divine
relationship with You by these humble
offerings called Our Word. In this way,
we are lifting our slower self by our Ever
Higher and Greater Intelligence.
13
History, our personal observation, and
experience, bears witness to the fact
that only an awareness fixed in You can
help us deal with Maya and Reality in all
circumstances.
14
You, of Infinite Beauty and Strength, the
Source of our transcendental consciousness,
awareness and intelligence, are the Grand
Solution within the problem. Pervading and
transcending all, You are bigger and more
intelligent than a multiple of all the
problems.
15
Thank You for teaching us the way back
to You. We are experiencing the fact that
everlasting, Omnipresent, Peace, our
original nature, is always with us, here,
now, in this moment, and can never
leave us.
16
The more we awaken, we are attracted
to You as our Supreme, Eternal Force that
pervades and transcends all bodies,
consciousness, intellects, and egos
throughout the cosmic manifestations.

17
By our spiritual practice, we focus on You,
the Very Highest, Most Intelligent Level of
Existence. This practice causes problems to
gradually dissolve from our consciousness,
slowly being replaced with solutions and
Tranquil Bliss.
18
Thank You for helping us remember You by
chanting Your Holy Names. Thus is actually
working to improve our lives. It a great tool
for controlling the kind of thoughts that we
allow to enter our consciousness and influence
our lives.