31. When the pot is broken, the space within it is absorbed in the infinite space and becomes ndifferentiated.
When the mind becomes pure, I do not perceive any difference between the mind and the supreme Being.
32. There is no pot; there is no pot’s interior space. Neither is there an individual soul nor the form of an individual soul. Know the absolute Brahman, devoid of knowable and knower.
33. Know me to be that Self who is everything and everywhere at all times, the one who is eternal, steady, the All, the nonexistent, and the Existent. Have no doubt.
Nonexistent – the phenomenal aspect of being, which has now disappeared.
34. There are no Vedas, no worlds, no gods, no sacrifices. There is certainly no caste, no stage in life, no family, no birth. There is neither the path of smoke nor the path of light. There is only the highest Truth, the homogeneous Brahman.
Stage in life – any of the four stages into which life is divided by the Hindus, namely, those of the student, the householder, the contemplative, and the mendicant.
The path of smoke, etc. – the two paths along which – according to Hinduism, souls travel to the invisible worlds after death.
35. If you are free of the pervaded and pervader, if you are one and fulfilled, how can you think of yourself as directly perceptible by the senses or beyond the range of the senses?
Free, etc. – one who has transcended the sense of distinction between forms (“pervaded”) and the Divine Substance (“pervader”). Such a one, therefore, has constant, unobstructed consciousness of Divinity.
Such a one has the dual realization of form and formless.
Directly – that is to say, in the manner in which the unenlightened perceives by the sense.
In the highest state of realization, sense perception is no longer distinguishable from spiritual intuition.
36. Some seek nonduality, others duality. They do not know the Truth, which is the same at all times and everywhere, which is devoid of both duality and nonduality.
37. How can they describe the Truth, which is beyond mind and words, which is devoid of white and other colours, of sound and other qualities?
38. When all these appear to you as false, when the body and so on appear to you like space, then you know Brahman truly, then for you there is no dual series.
Dual series – such as “I and Thou” (self and God), “I and it” (self and the world), and so on. Also it means “Self and not-Self” and the series of their evolutes.
39. Even my natural self appears to me as non-distinct from the supreme Self; it appears to be one and like space. How can there be meditator and meditation?
40. What I do, what I eat, what I sacrifice, what I give – all this is not mine in the least. I am pure, unborn, undecaying.
41. Know all this universe to be formless. Know all this universe to be without change. Know all this universe to be of purified body. Know all this universe to be of the nature of the Absolute.
Of purified body – That is to say, the material substance of which the universe appears to be constitute is really nothing but pure Spirit/Consciousness.
42. You are verily the Truth. There is no doubt about it – otherwise, what do I know? Why do you consider the Self, which is perceptible to Itself, as imperceptible?
Otherwise – If one does not perceive every being as The Self, one is still ignorant.
43. My child, how can there be illusion and non illusion, shadow and lack of shadow? All this is one Truth, all this is of the nature of space and without taint.
44. I am free in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end. I am never bound. This is my sure knowledge – that I am naturally spotless and pure.
45. The whole universe, beginning with the principle of cosmic intelligence, is not in the least manifest to me. All is indeed Brahman alone. How can there be any existence in cast or stage of life for me?
