Jnana Yoga

Praise 17

Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.

Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayathri.

1

Meditating on You as the Source of

 Silence and Space, we are awakening 

beyond the sense of a separate self, a

 self of physical designations.  Now we 

are gradually experiencing You as

the the Subject, the Source of our 

Tranquil Intelligence.   

2

Silence, Stillness, and Light are

objects whose subject, Source, is You.

This is why You cannot be seen,

only experienced as the Self.

3

You are never just the object.

Although You pervade them, You,

the Eternal Subject, the Source,

simultaneously pervade and transcend 

all subjects.

4

You are the Eternal, Infinite, and Most Pure.

Other than You, all are subjects.  By

associating with You, our purification and

raising back to our original nature is

automatic.

5

Our consciousness. awareness, and

 intelligence are cleansed of anger,

lust, and greed by virtue of Your 

association.  As this happens, we see

 how to get out and stay out of Maya,

 our suffering predicament.

6

You pervade and transcend all cosmic

webs and Galaxes. More subtle than the

aether; pervading and transcending the

space between subatomic particles, and

thoughts, You, Divine Intelligence, are

the greatest of all

7

You are Divine Intelligence, within and

beyond Gravity and Electromagnetism.

The more we associate with You, the

more we return to Pure Intelligence,

 our original position.

8

Constant remembrance of You is associating

with You and cleaning our ihntelligence,

 awareness, and consciousness of the

contamination of bodily designation, 

illusory identification, Maya.

9

This spiritual practice is awakening us out

of Maya to the barely describable, Tranquil

Bliss of the Self.

10

You are our Highest, the Most Present

intelligence. To the degree we resurrect

to our original Pure Intelligence, we

 regain clear awareness and pure

consciousness.  This is alignment with 

You, the Eternal Light of Divine 

Intelligence.

11

We regain our original consciousness,

awareness, and intelligence, by

associating with You.  As this happens,

we are ever more centered and

balanced in all we think, feel, will, say, 

and do.

12

By virtue of Your association, we are

Centered and balanced in You. Hence,

we are able to remain the same in the

face of loss or gain, pleasure or pain,

and other repulsions, attractions and

attachments of the illusory worlds,

Maya.

13

Thank You for accepting this humble

offering. This spiritual practice helps us

remember You, turn to You and be saved. 

 14

To be saved means to redeem our

consciousness, awareness, and

intelligence from the illusory hells of

repeated birth, death, and rebirth,

Maya.

15

The major psychological impairment at

the root of our spiritual slavery, being

entangled in Maya, is the belief that the

self is a material, mental, intellectual, or

ego entity.  

16

The real Self or Divine Intelligence, is

beyond description but not beyond

experience. Surely, It pervades and

transcends everything: Consciousness,

awareness, intelligence, everything, 

nothing, and transcendence.

17

Persistence in this spiritual practice of

associating with You, gives us glimpses of

Your awesome magnificence.  This makes

 us ever stronger in our patience and

determination to realize You, here, now, in

this moment.

18

Awakening and rising out of Maya, we are

realizing, what to us is the ultimate goal of

life, conscious union with You. The first steps

in this awakening to the Self is seeing the self

 as intelligence, and engaging in this spiritual

 practice of always thinking of You.