Verses 64-65

Is it possible
To be ignorant of
that which does not exist?
Would you be ignorant of
What you see in front?
How then that ignorance
Of what exists?
There is sleeping
beyond sleep
There is an awakening
beyond waking up.
Jnanadeva says, tried I have
To run a thread through them.

Verses 62-63

It was like Jnanadeva
sitting face to face with
Lord Shrikrishna,
two mirrors
Facing each other
Discovering both
can see with eyes.
Where is the separateness?
Same way
Make these verses
a mirror unto you.
And rejoice in the joy
Of the Being.

Verses 60-61

Dear Changya
When the whole wealth
Of knowledge is unloaded
In front of your house,
sweep all questions
to the backyard.
Changya
This reply is only an indulgence
of my Guru;
Like a mother to her child,
he feeds me with these
delicacies with so much
Fondness.

Verses 57-59

May this dialogue
Open our eyes
to meet our Self
in our Selves.
Like in the deluge
It’s the ocean everywhere
Where does one search for source of the river?
Says Jnanadeva
Your existence is real
Without the particularities
Of name and form.
Rejoice in the living self
And be happy.

Verses 54-56

It’s the palate that
delights, delicacies a pretext.
It’s me that I admire,
the mirror a means,
the image but an impression.
I stuffed here
theses and postulates
and with
the alphabet of silence
composed this prelude
to our meeting.
It’s only a means,
If you wish to look at yourself,
Like a lamp needs light, its own,
to be able to see.

I have composed all this merely as a means, an image of your self and mine to see in this mirror.

Verses 51-53

The eye rejoices
in witnessing
scenic wonders
and with that sight
in darkness
gropes without stumbling.
Scenes emerge and fade
The sight does not.
Being -
the experience
of oneness.
Our persona-the pictures
that appear and fade.
Let us rejoice in the meeting.

Amid the transience of the world, permanent is the Being that experiences and not the Person who is but an amalgam of experiences, emerging and fading. Let us meet to touch the level of Being and not simply as Persons.

Verses 49-50

In the darkness after
The sunset
I am there still
experiencing it.
When you meet me
It is the same.
There is experiencing
beyond
The you and the me.

In the duality of the world, and me, there are phases of presence and absence of things. In the Oneness of experience, there is only that continuity of experience. With you, the experience alone jingles, not this division of you and me (that leads to discord of you against me).

Verse 48

Once woken up
how can I sense
The sleep?
In seeing you
There is no
Face mine
And yours -
only seeing.

You have awakened in me that seeing of the seeing which is a pure flow beyond the self and as so beyond separateness.

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