Recap of Awakening Clues from Ashtavakara Gita - 20th September 2017

So the first clue was that which is the witness of all things. And all these verses you found, like the verse which says: You are not earth, water, fire, air, nor are you empty space. Liberation is to know yourself as awareness alone, the witness of these. You have no caste or duties. You're invisible, unattached, formless. You are the witness of all things; be happy then. The favorite one: You are the solitary witness of all there is, forever free. You are the Self, the solitary witness. You are perfect, all-pervading one. Seeing there is no universal body, by grace the Self is revealed. Not seeing Self, the world is material. I am wonderful indeed, beyond adoration, and everything thought or spoken, and have nothing. Seeing all things as threefold suffering, the Self becomes still. That was the first clue.

Then let me just now read on only the truths. Second clue is that which remains unchanging. Today I can read one verse about it: You are unconditioned, changeless, formless, your solid unfathomable core. Third clue: That which is beyond limitations or boundaries. I have unbounded awareness. Only in imagination do I have limits. In the limitless ocean of myself, the winds of the mind blow the myriad waves of the world.

The fourth clue: That which can only be found in the present or now. It does not come and go; it is not subject to time. Verses: You are now and forever free, luminous, transparent, still. The practice of meditation keeps one in bondage. Okay, but you have to hear my commentary; meditate on that. Clue five: That which has no desires or aversions. One of the verses is: You are the Self, the solitary witness. You are perfect, all-pervading one. You are free, desireless, forever still. The universe is but a seeming in you.

Clue six: That which is beyond doership, beyond action and inaction. That which is beyond doership. Thought 'I am the doer' is the bite of the poisonous snake. To know 'I do nothing' is the wisdom of faith; be happy. In reality, knowledge, the knower, and the knowable do not exist. The great soul witnesses his body's actions as if they were another's. How can praise or blame disturb him?

Clue seven: That which is beyond separation and union. Beyond both the concept of separation and union. Meditate on this: I am awareness alone, unity itself. Give up the idea that you are separate, a person, that there is within and without. I am neither free nor bound; the illusion of such things has fallen into disbelief. Clue eight: That which cannot be found by the mind. That which cannot be found by the mind means that which cannot be described or caught by concepts, judgments, or inferences. The mind is complex; let it go. Know the peace of dissolution.