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Chapter 5

1. The sound "Om" which is uttered, is indicative of the Brahm and hence is all pervading like the heavens. There is no idea of the higher or lower reality in it. It is negative of both worldly pleasure and pain. It being so how can a letter with a dot be pronounced? (for it would denote duality while the fact is rigid unduality).

2. Thou art the Eternal principle of the Soul as declared by the Vedic verses such as 'Thou art That'. Thou art devoid of all obstructions and art universally one. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

3. It is all one devoid of height or depth. It is all one devoid of exterior or interior. It is all one devoid of number. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

4. It is beyond all conception and all that is conceived, it is beyond cause and effect. It is devoid of all words and their arrangement. It is all one. It being so, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

5. It is beyond the concentration of knowledge. It is beyond the comprehension of space. It is beyond the sweep of Time, it being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

6. It is neither the pot nor the space occupied by it; neither the body nor the Jiva undwelling it; neither the cause nor the effect. It being all one why dost thou grieve, O heart!

7. It is emancipation for ever and ever more. It is devoid of all distinctions of being long or short. It is not marked by any roundness or angularity. It is all one. Being so, why dost thou grieve, O heart 1

8. It is devoid of both fulness and voidness it is devoid of both purity and impurity; it is incapable of being the whole or a part. It is all one. Being so, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

9. To it no ideas of unity or separateness- apply; no ideas of inwardness or their union apply. It is all one devoid of all distinctions as to friend and foe. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

10. It is neither a pupil nor a not pupil. In it there is no distinction of animate or inanimate- beings. It is the eternal goal of emancipation. It being all one, why dost thou grieve O heart!

11. It is verily devoid of both form and form- lessness. It is devoid of both separateness or in- separateness. It is devoid of both origin and dissolution. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

12. It is not bound by the bondage of good or bad qualities How can it undergo birth and death? It is all one-pure, and immaculate. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

13. It is devoid of all thoughts and feelings. It is devoid of desire and desirelessness. It is verily the highest knowledge and eternal emancipation. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

14. It is the truth— the Eternal Truth. It is devoid of all ideas of union or separateness. It is devoid of all and is universally one. It being so, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

15. It has .no dwelling place. To it all are like the members of a family. It is rigidly inca- pable of contact and contactlessness. It is verily beyond all knowledge and ignorance. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

16. (This world) being a change of that which is changeless, an objectification of that which cannot be conceived, is false. If the Atma which is all one, is the only real Entity, then why dost thou grieve, O heart!

17. Verily all this is life— eternal life. This is all life, pure and undefiled. All is verily One; why dost thou, then, grieve, O heart!

18. It is not known whether discrimination or indiscrimination is the quality of the Brahm. It is not known whether it is characterized by change or not. If it is One Eternal Consciousness, and all is one, then, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

19. There is really neither bondage nor liberation; neither virtue nor vice; neither fullness nor vacuam. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

20. If it is equally devoid of color and colorlessness, if it is equally devoid of cause and effect, if it is equally devoid of unity and separateness, then it being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

21. It abides in all hearts, being omnipresent. It dwells in all hearts, being one immutable exis- tence. It abides in all hearts as having no feet &c. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart! *

22. It is really everywhere ever-existing and all-pervading. It is supremely pure and immutable and all underlying. It is penetrating and interpenetrating, all irrespective of day and night* It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

23. It is bound by no bonds whatsoever. It admits of no union or separation. It cannot be attained by discussion or criticism. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

24. It is not bound by time and its periods. It is not touched by fire. It is Truth, pure and simple. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

25. It is neither material nor immaterial- It is equally devoid of sleeping and sound sleeping states. It is surely beyond all speech and description. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

26. It is like the heavens, pure, immense and uniform. It is not separate from all that is, for it is universally one. It is everywhere the same being beyond reality, unreality and all changes. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

27. It is equally indifferent to virtue and vice, to material and immaterial enjoyments, and to passions and dispassions. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

28. It is equally devoid of pleasure and pain, being all alike. It is far far beyond sorrow and joy. It is neither a teacher nor a pupil. It is the Truth and Truth Supreme. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

29. In it verily there is no embryo of reality or falsehood. It is neither movable nor immovable, neither uniform nor varied. It is beyond all ritual or non-ritual observances. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

30. It is the quientessence of all essentials. It is expressible only in self-realization. All sensual activities are false. It being all one, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

31. All phenomena such as the heavens &c are as illusionary as the mirage, so proclaims many a Vedic verse. If it is a never-ceasing and all uniformly permeating One, then, why dost thou grieve, O heart!

32. The enlightened Ascetic who has been purged of all evil desires and who is submerged in the sentiment of Oneness throughout declares the truth that one never succeeds in knowing it (Brahm) which neither the Vedic verses nor any logical definition can ever describe.