Jnana Yoga 7
Praise And Thanksgiving
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayathri.
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Thank You for showing us the importance
of fixing our consciousness on You. While
we are doing this, we are cleansing it of all
traces of anger, lust, and greed. Those
brigands are slowly being replaced with
compassion, love, and charity for all
sentient beings. In this way You are
resurrecting in our daily life.
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Awakening and experiencing the reality of
You in our lives, we cease running from one
illusory thing to the next, thinking that the
next sense pleasure will surely bring freedom,
justice, joy and fulfillment. Thank You for
showing us how to get out of illusion and
attain freedom and salvation with diligence.

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All merciful Supreme Being of the cosmos,
all we need is within You, who are within
and beyond our own Intelligence.
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Pervading and transcending the totality of
all, material and spiritual, You are the
Supreme being of our most intelligent
understanding.
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Unconditional Love, You are the Supreme
Knower and Loving Awareness of all. All
praises to You. Thank You for showing us how
to be devoted to You through constant
remembrance.
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Ever Unsulliable, Supremely Pure in all respects, You are our Supreme Being, Ever
Existing without interruption. It is through thinking of You that we purify our consciousness and conquer the monarch of beasts: Anger, lust, and greed.
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It is because of those beasts: Anger, lust, and greed, that consciousness is polluted with negative thoughts and enslaved in therelentless cycles of sufferings known as the material worlds. We rise out of that morass by always thinking of You.
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Ever Unsulliable, Supremely Pure in all
respects, You are our Supreme Being, Ever
Existing without interruption. It is through
thinking of You that we purify our
consciousness and conquer the monarch of
beasts: Anger, lust, and greed.
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It is because of those beasts: Anger, lust,
and greed, that consciousness is polluted
with negative thoughts and enslaved in the
relentless cycles of sufferings known as
the material worlds. We rise out of that
morass by always thinking of You.
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Excerpt from a poem by Shamugam
" You’re not your body and you’re not your mind;
Not knowing the timeless truth makes you blind;
You’re not your story and you’re not your thoughts;
You’re not those age old, buried mental knots.
You’re not that chattering voice in your head;
You’re not anything that you did or said;
You’re not anything that you have or know
You’re the truth that is watching all this show!
You’re not anything that can be perceived;
You’re not an object that can be observed;
You’re the screen where the world is being played;
You’re the emptiness where the form is made.
You’re the one witnessing the mind and breath;
You’re one without two, beyond birth and death;
Like the air trapped in a small round bubble,
You feel separate which brings all the trouble.
Inquire inside and wake up from this dream!
Let truth alone shine like a bright white beam!
By inquiry, your illusions will break;
You’ll stop mistaking the rope for a snake”
Excerpt from a poem by Shamugam
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You are always with us as Eternal,
Omnipresent, Omniscient, Divine
Intelligence. Pervading and transcending
all vibration, You are within and beyond
the Most Subtle Stillness with is beyond
Quarks and metaphysical phenomena.
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We think of You as the foundation, the
Changeless Source of all change. Thank
You for showing us how submitting all
we think, will, feel, say, and do to You,
is working for the betterment of all
Sentient Beings throughout the
Galaxies.
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You are the Source of all peace, prosperity,
and boundless inner and outer joy. Thank
You for revealing to us a methodology for
purifying our consciousness, awareness,
and intelligence; thereby redeeming
ourselves from the suffering of repeated
death and birth in Maya.
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You, Supreme Intelligence, are the only
one worthy of worship. More subtle than
the either and eternally present everywhere,
no image or sound can confine nor define
You.

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Neither can any name define You. You are
within and beyond name, namelessness,
formlessness and form, this and that.
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Divine Intelligence, You are the Power
within, and behind all Righteous, Royal
Thrones, and the most humblest of
homes.
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Thank You for showing us how to fix our
consciousness on You by offering all to You
and constantly calling out one or some of
Your infinite Names.
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Chanting Your names and offering all to You
are some of the primary tools we are using
to help us in our efforts to stay out of the
insanity of Maya, and experience conscious
union with You.

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You are the Heart, the Omnipresent Center,
the Soul of our life. The Infinite Intelligence
within and beyond the consciousness,
awareness, and intelligence of all Sentient
Beings, is what You are, and More.
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Thank You for accepting these humble
submissions of prayer, glorification, and
thanksgiving to You. Om Tat Sat.