Sri Bhagawan
People say that durability and steadiness of this body is life. And the casting off this body, far beyond body, is death.
O man of great intellect, you are free from both these opinions. Where then is death for you? Where then is life for you?
O slayer of foes, what I said (earlier) is purely for the sake of illustration. O knower of everything, there is neither death nor life for you.
Wind / air is in space and sky. Yet it is untouched by sky. Similarly even though you are in body, you are like one who is without body.
O man of good vows, this body exists because of its response to touch. Sky does not prevent any heightening of anything. (And so it is recognised as sky, (Akasa)
You know what is to be known. Where then does the body exist? The differentiation of One (into many) is the distressful state of (only) the ignorant.
Always and in everything you exist as the light of consciousness. Your mind abides always in the Supreme. Where then is body? Even if it exists, there is nothing to be taken or given up by you.
Let spring arrive or let there be winds of dissolution. For the Self there is neither becoming nor nonbecoming.
Let mountains disintegrate. Let the fires of dissolution blaze and burn. Let the winds of dissolution and deluge blow. You abide in your Self.
Let all beings stay or get destroyed or increase. You abide in your Self alone.
The Self, that is the Lord, does not decline when body declines. It does not increase when body increases. It does not resonate when body vibrates.
'I am this body, I am the embodied one', - when such illusions and deformations of the mind decline, then 'I am giving up, I am not giving up' - such fabrications are in vain.
My child, for those who know the truth, ideas and mental formations like ''after I do this, this I shall do then; I shall give this up and do the other,' are totally absent do not exist.
The enlightened ones do everything and yet they are not doing anything. Their non-involvement in action is also not binding on them.
By their non-action, they also become non-enjoyers. In all the three worlds who gets any crop without sowing?
When ownership of action and enjoyment of action are missing, only peace and calm remain. If this becomes stablized, then it is called liberation.
The enlightened men of transcendental consciousness and men of great purity are beyond everything. For them what is there that they have taken to anounce it and vice versa?
For those who have no strong meausreable/quantified / finite parts what can they give?What can they take?
When the relationship like 'given and taken' is absent, then peace abounds. When such a state arives, it is called liberation.
Best of people like you abide in such a state of calmness. They move about like the limbs during state of sleep.
You are established in this world with all your vasanas totally eliminated and with the light about the Supreme. With your intelligence firmly established in the Self, move about in this world like one who is half-asleep.
With all attention drawn inwards and enjoying in own Self, they do not play with the world outside. Rejoicing in the Self, they do not get anguished about the sorrows (of the world)
Just like a mirror which accepts all reflections (in it), the eternally awakened ones take things as they come and perform the works that come to them.
They are awake to the selves. They are asleep to the world. They are prompted like children and act like one in sleep (in the world)
O Mahatma, Internally you are like Brahma (and so you shall live for a whole kalpa, aeon.) Enjoy here itself (in your Kingdom) all properity and attain that infallible state of the Supreme.
