Jnana Yoga 8
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 our Supreme, Most Righteous
Leader. We see You as the Ultimate Virtuous
Message Giver, and the Ever-Well wisher of
all sentient and insentient beings.
2
Thank You for showing us how to consciously
participate in the evolution of our consciousness
toward union with You. We are doing this through our
personal prayer, study, and doing all as
submission/offering to You.

3
We believe, in the light of our research,
observation, and experience, that our true
identity is Spirit, Pure Intelligence. This
Super Intelligence is within and beyond
Consciousness, Awareness, and ordinary
intelligence.
4
Thank You for enlightening us and supplying
us with the right tools to reach You. Thank
You for passing down to us, and allowing us to
experience a modicum of the ecstatic, vibratory
bliss of You.
5
We commune with You, associate with
You, by always thinking of You and offering
everything to You. Gradually, we are
experiencing, and recognizing, who we are,
where we are, what we should be doing, and
what we are doing to regain conscious union
with You.
6
All our praise and thanksgiving is
surrendered to You. This process enables
our Being to be refined, expanded and elevated
to its original nature.
7
Most sentient beings seem to live and die
engrossed in the materialistic concept of life.
However, the more our Being is purified and
comes back to its original nature of Pure
Intelligence, we experience and comprehend
the fact that we are spiritual Beings, death is
a myth, and our natural condition is eternal.

8
We do not want to be ignorant because we
are the soul, and the soul is unlimited
knowledge, comprehension and bliss. We do
not want to be loud because we are the soul,
and the soul in union with You is complete,
bliss filled, tranquillity.
9
We See You as Divine Intelligence, within
and beyond consciousness, awareness, and
ordinary intelligence. This is the Super
Extraordinary Intelligence which is more
subtle than the stillness between thoughts.
10
Thank You for teaching and showing us
how to experience who You are and where
You are. You are always here as our
Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent,
Divine Intelligence.
11
Thoughts of You rid the consciousness of
misery by cleansing it of sin committing
thoughts committed when our lower
consciousness, awareness and intelligence
were contaminated with anger, lust, and
greed.
12
Full of anger, lust, and greed, we were
exceedingly ignorant and forgetful about
how to connect with Your purifying Loving
Presence.
13
Now we know, the more our consciousness,
awareness, and intelligence are cleansed,
as a consequence of Your association, the
more we are true to ourselves, honest and
compassionate in our dealings with all
sentient beings.
14
Most Attractive One, the more our
consciousness is purified by praising and
thanking You, the more we are transformed
from beings of anger to beings of compassion,
from beings of greed to beings of charity, from
beings over powered by lust, to beings resurrected
and strong in Your Eternal Loving Service.
15
Praise be to You, Supreme Spiritual Master
to whom other masters come to learn of the Self.
You pervade and transcend tears and smiles,
wrinkles and frowns, ups and downs, jokers and
clowns.
16
Within and beyond our present condition,
in Maya, You are Omnipresent, Supreme
Soul, the Greatest Consciousness,
Awareness, and Intelligence of all.

17
You are within and beyond thoughts,
consciousness, awareness, and intelligence.
You also permeate the thoughtless silence
and are Its Witness, simultaneously.
18
Even within and beyond Nirvana, You are the
Source of Supreme Spiritual Strength, and
the Origin of True Enlightenment.