11. There is nothing dividing, nothing to be divided. I have nothing to know with and nothing to be known. How shall I then speak of coming and going? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
12. I have no body or bodilessness – nor have I intelligence, mind or senses. How shall I speak of attachment and detachment? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
13. The Self is not separate or high – and it has not disappeared even to the extent of allusion. Friend, how can I speak of it as identical or different? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
14. Neither have I conquered the senses – nor have i not conquered them. Self-restraint or discipline never occurred to me. Friend how can I speak of victory and defeat? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
15. Never have I form or absence of form, Never any beginning, middle, or end. Friend how can I speak of strength and weakness? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
16. Never did I have death or deathlessness – poison or poisonlessness. How can I speak of pure and impure? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
17. Never have I sleep or awakening. Never do I practice concentration or hand-posture. For me there is neither day nor night. How can i speak of the transcendental and relative states? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
18. Know me as free from all and form the details composing the all. I have neither illusion nor freedom from illusion. How shall I speak of such rituals as morning and evening devotions? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished. I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
19. know me as endowed with all concentration. Know me as free from any relative or or ultimate aim. How shall I speak of union and separation? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
20. I am neither ignorant nor learned, I observe neither silence nor absence of silence. How shall I speak of argument and counter argument? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
21. Never do I have father, mother, family, caste, birth and death. How shall I speak of affection and infatuation? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
22. Never do I disappear – I am ever manifest. Never so I have effulgence or absence of effulgence. How shall I speak of such rituals as morning and evening devotions? I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
23. Know me beyond all doubt to be boundless. Know me beyond all doubt to be undivided. Know me beyond all doubt to be stainless. I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
24. The wise give up all meditations; they give up all good and evil deeds and drink of the nectar of renunciation. I am free from disease – my form has been extinguished.
25. There is verily no versification where one knows nothing. The supreme and free one absorbed in the consciousness of the homogenous being and pure of thought, prattles about the truth.
Chapter 5
1. The word Om is like the sky, it is not the discernment of the essence of high or low. How can there be enunciation of the point of the word Om which annuls the manifestation of the unmanifest?
2. The srutis – such as “That thou art” – prove to thee thou art indeed “That” devoid of adjuncts and the same in all. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
3. If thou art identity in all, if thou art devoid of above and below, within and without and of even the sense of unity, then – Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
4. There is no discrimination of rules and precepts- there is no cause or effect. That which is the identity in all is without words and the collection of words. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
5. There is no knowledge or ignorance and no practice of concentration. There is no space and the absence of space and no practice of concentration. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
6. There is no pot, no individual body or individual. There is no distinction of cause and effect. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
7. There is only the state of freedom which is the All and undifferentiated, which is devoid of the distinction of short and long of round and angular. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
8. Here is the only One – without void and absence of void, without purity and impurity – without the whole and the part. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
9. There is no distinction – of the different and the non-different. There is no distinction of within and without – or the junction of the two. It is the same in all- devoid of friend and foe. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
10. It is not of the nature of disciple or non-disciple; nor is it the discernment of the difference between the living and the non-living. There is only the state of freedom – The All – The undifferentiated. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
11. It is without form and formlessness. It is without difference and non-difference. It is without manifestation and evolution. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
12. There is no bondage – due to fetters of good and evil qualities. How shall I perform the actions related to death and life? There is only the pure stainless Being – the same in all.. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
13. Here is the Being devoid – of existence and non-existence- of desire and desirelessness. Here is verily the highest consciousness – identical with freedom. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
14. Here is the truth undifferentiated by truths – devoid of junction and disjunction. Since it is the same in all and devoid of all – Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
15. Here is the Supreme – devoid of association and disassociation – unlike a house cottage or sheath. Here is the Supreme, devoid of knowledge and ignorance. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
16. Change and changelessness the definable and the indefinable are untrue. if the truth is in the Self alone – Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?
