40 Verses on Reality

14. If the first person, I, exists, then the second and third persons, you and he,
will also exist. By enquiring into the nature of the I, the I perishes. With it
'you' and 'he' also perish. The resultant state, which shines as Absolute Being,
is one's own natural state, the Self.

17. To those who have not realized the Self, as well as to those who have, the
word 'I' refers to the body, but with this difference, that for those who have not
realized, the 'I' is confined to the body whereas for those who have realized the
Self within the body the 'I' shines as the limitless Self.

18. To those who have not realized (the Self) as well as to those who have the
world is real. But to those who have not realized, Truth is adapted to the measure
of the world, whereas to those that have, Truth shines as the Formless Perfection,
and as the Substratum of the world. This is all the difference between them.

20. He who sees God without seeing the Self sees only a mental image. They say
that he who sees the Self sees God. He who, having completely lost the ego, sees
the Self, has found God, because the Self does not exist apart from God.

26. If the ego is, everything else also is. If the ego is not, nothing else is.
Indeed, the ego is all. Therefore the enquiry as to what this ego is, is the only
way of giving up everything.

27. The State of non-emergence of 'I' is the state of being THAT. Without questing
for that State of the non-emergence of 'I' and attaining It, how can one
accomplish one's own extinction, from which the 'I' does not revive? Without that
attainment how is it possible to abide in one's true State, where one is THAT?

38. As long as a man is the doer, he also reaps the fruit of his deeds, but, as
soon as he realizes the Self through enquiry as to who is the doer his sense of
being the doer falls away and the triple karma2 is ended. This is the state of
eternal Liberation.

39. Only so long as one considers oneself bound, do thoughts of bondage and
Liberation continue. When one enquires who is bound the Self is realized,
eternally attained, and eternally free. When thought of bondage comes to an end,
can thought of Liberation survive?

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