King Janaka says: Amazingly,
I am flawless, peaceful, beyond nature and of the form of knowledge. It is
ironical to be deluded all this time. 1
As I illumine this body, so
I illumine the world. Therefore, either the whole world is mine or nothing
is. 2
Now abandoning this world
along with the body, Lord is seen through some skill. 3
Just as waves, foam and bubbles
are not different from water, similarly all this world which has emanated from
self, is not different from self. 4
On reasoning, cloth is known
to be just thread, similarly all this world is self only. 5
Just as the sugar made from
sugarcane juice has the same flavor, similarly this world is made out from me
and is constantly pervaded by me. 6
Due to ignorance, self
appears as the world; on realizing self it disappears. Due to oversight a rope
appears as a snake and on correcting it, snake does not appear any longer. 7
Light is my very nature and
I am nothing else besides that. That light illumines the ego as it illumines
the world. 8
Amazingly, this imagined
world appears in me due to ignorance, as silver in seashell, a snake in the
rope, water in the sunlight. 9
This world is originated
from me and gets absorbed in me, like a jug back into clay, a wave into water,
and a bracelet into gold. 10
Amazing! Salutations to me
who is indestructible and remains even after the destruction of whole world
from Brahma down to the grass. 11
Amazing! Salutations to me
who is one, who appears with body, neither goes nor come anywhere and pervades
all the world. 12
Amazing! Salutations to me
who is skilled and there is no one else like him, who without even touching
this body, holds all the world. 13
Amazing! Salutations to me
who either does not possess anything or possesses anything that could be
referred by speech and mind. 14
Knowledge, object of
knowledge and the knower, these three do not exist in reality. The flawless
self appears as these three due to ignorance. 15
Definitely, duality
(distinction) is the fundamental reason of suffering. There is no other remedy
for it other than knowing that all that is visible, is unreal, and that I am
one, pure consciousness. 16
I am of the nature of light
only, due to ignorance I have imagined other attributes in me. By reasoning
thus, I exist eternally and without cause.
17
For me there is neither
bondage nor liberation. I am peaceful and without support. This world though
imagined in me, does not exist in me in reality. 18
Definitely this world along
with this body is non-existent. Only pure, conscious self exists. What else is
there to be imagined now? 19
The body, heaven and hell, bondage
and liberation, and fear, these are all unreal. What is my connection with them
who is conscious. 20
Amazingly, I do not see
duality in a crowd, it also appear desolate. Now who is there to have an
attachment with. 21
I am not the body, nor is the
body mine. I am consciousness. My only bondage is the thirst for life. 22
Amazingly, as soon as the
mental winds arise in the infinite ocean of myself, many waves of surprising
worlds come into existence. 23
As soon as these mental
winds subside in the infinite ocean of myself, the world boat of trader-like
'jeeva' gets destroyed as if by misfortune. 24
Amazingly, in the infinite
ocean of myself, the waves of life arise, meet, play and disappear
naturally. 25