Reading 166, from Ashtavakra Samhita
Aho aham namp mahyan vinaso yasya nasti me
Brahmadi-stamba -paryantam jagan-nas’pi tisthatah.
Wonderful am I ! Adoration to myself [in the absolute sense] who knows no decay and survives even the destruction of the world, from Brahma down to a clump of grass.
My notes:
Even for a moment do not think of the ‘I’ here as the you the individual reading this. Neither let conceptions of Narcissism befuddle your mind. This is Advaita Vedanta — unqualified monism.
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I think your comment is correct.
However, it is very likely to mislead a reader back to the mud of duality and suffering from which all Advaita teachers are trying to lift us up!!!
God is not within you! YOU are God.
It is this supreme unity of feeling and intuition that gives the ‘quantum leap into the absolute’ as somebody has called it.
You CANNOT fit Ashtavakra’s statements into any dualistic mould, thank God! And that is just a slip. It’s just an idiom.
So many can and do invoke ‘divine’ blessings by making an uproar in the ether, psychotically disturbing denizens of the astral worlds. Why go to such lengths to obtain fruits of no lasting significnce? But the inner emptiness drives them.
Only the assurances of Advaitic statements can make you realise that you are in fact desireless and the storm of desires was but a temporary delusion. The emptiness within then becomes a thing of pride and glory. It is actually fullness.
See Chapt. 2 verse 1.
Kiran Ashtekar - August 20, 2008 at 9:58 pm