Recognize, dear soul, that your true Self dwells in all beings, and all beings abide in the Self. When you see this unity, ego and possessiveness fall away, and happiness dawns naturally. The universe, with all its radiant forms, arises and shines within the Self—just as countless waves rise and fall in the vast ocean. This alone is the undoubted truth. You are the very embodiment of consciousness; let go of distress and rest in this awareness. Have faith, beloved one, have faith. Do not be deceived by appearances. Your real nature is the Self—pure knowledge, divine, untouched by the play of nature. The body, wrapped in qualities, stands, moves, and departs, but the Self neither comes nor goes. Why, then, grieve for what is only a passing form? Whether the body lasts until the end of an age or drops away today, what is gained or lost for you, who are pure consciousness? In you, the infinite ocean, the waves of the universe arise and subside by their own nature, but you are untouched by their coming and going. You are pure awareness; this world is not separate from you. So where, for whom, or how can there arise any notion of acceptance or rejection? In you, the one imperishable, peaceful, and pure expanse of consciousness, how can there be birth, action, or even ego? Whatever is perceived, it is you alone who appear there, just as bracelets, armlets, and anklets are nothing but gold in various forms. Abandon the notion, “This is me, this is not me.” When you realize that all is the Self, you become free of all concepts and are truly happy. It is only through ignorance that the world appears to be separate; in reality, you are One. There is no other bound or liberated apart from you. Be certain that this world is but an illusion; nothing else is real. Free of desires, made only of awareness, you become as if nothing, and find perfect peace. In the one ocean of existence, there is only one—past, present, and future. For you, there is neither bondage nor liberation, nothing to be done or undone. Move about in happiness. Do not disturb your mind with doubts and thoughts, O embodiment of consciousness. Remain calm and rest happily in your own Self, the very form of bliss. Let go of meditation itself; do not hold anything in your heart. You are already the free Self—what could be gained by further deliberation? You may listen to or explain countless scriptures, but you will not find true ease except by forgetting everything. Whether you pursue enjoyment, action, or meditation, wise one, your mind—once freed from all desires—will delight exceedingly. All suffer from effort, yet few know this truth; by this very teaching, the fortunate find peace. The one who is troubled even by the smallest activity is the highest among the lazy; happiness belongs to such a one, not to others. When the mind is freed from the dualities of “this is done, this is not,” it becomes indifferent to righteousness, wealth, pleasure, and liberation. The one who is detached rejects sense objects; the passionate craves them. But one who is free from both grasping and rejecting is neither detached nor passionate. The notion of accepting and rejecting persists only as long as desire lives—the sprout of worldly existence—until the state of pure inquiry is attained. Attachment arises in activity, aversion in inactivity; but the wise, free from duality, remain established like a child. The passionate seek to abandon the world to escape suffering, but the dispassionate, being free from sorrow, are not troubled even while living in it. One who clings even to liberation, or to the body as “mine,” is neither a knower nor a yogi, but merely shares in suffering. Even if Shiva, Vishnu, or Brahma themselves were to teach you, you would not find ease except by forgetting everything. He who has attained the fruit of knowledge and yoga, whose senses are pure and satisfied, finds delight alone. The knower of truth never grieves in this world, for by him alone the whole universe is fulfilled. Sense objects cannot please one who delights in himself, just as bitter neem leaves cannot please the elephant who loves sallaki shoots. Rare is the one who, enjoying pleasures, remains unaffected, and when not enjoying, feels no longing. In this world, some desire enjoyment, others liberation, but rare indeed is the great soul who is free from longing for either. For the noble-minded, there is no notion of accepting or rejecting anything—be it righteousness, wealth, pleasure, liberation, life, or death. Such a one has no desire at the universe’s dissolution, nor aversion at its existence; living as he is, he remains blessed and content. Fulfilled by knowledge, with thoughts dissolved, the accomplished one abides content as he is, whether seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, or eating. His vision is empty, his actions futile, his senses impaired; there is neither longing nor detachment in one whose ocean of worldly existence has dried up. He neither wakes nor sleeps, neither opens nor closes his eyes—ah, what a wondrous state! Somewhere abides the one whose mind is free. Everywhere he is seen as self-possessed, everywhere with pure intention; freed from all desires, liberated, he shines in every place. Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, taking, speaking, walking—freed from both action and inaction, the great-souled one is truly liberated. He neither criticizes nor praises, neither rejoices nor becomes angry; he neither gives nor takes—liberated, he is indifferent everywhere. Whether he encounters affection or faces death, his mind remains undisturbed, self-possessed—such is the nature of the truly liberated great soul.