Ch 7

7: Nature of Self-Realization

Janaka said: 

In me, the shoreless ocean, 

the ark of universe 

drifts here and there 

on the winds of its nature. 

I am not impatient. 

In me, the shoreless ocean, 

let the waves of the universe 

rise and fall as they will. 

I am neither enhanced nor diminished. 

In me, the shoreless ocean, 

the universe is imagined. 

I am still and formless. 

In this alone I abide. 

The Self is not in objects, 

nor are objects in the pure and infinite Self. 

The Self is tranquil, 

free of attachment and desire. 

In this alone I abide. 

I am Awareness alone. 

The world is passing show. 

How can thoughts arise 

of acceptance or rejection? 

And where?