20 Liberation-in-Life

REALIZATION AND LAST STAGE OF LIFE

** Janaka said — **

** 1. Where are the elements, where is the body, where are the organs, and where is the mind; where is the void; where, too, is despair for me who am taintless by nature? **

**2. Where are the scriptures, where is knowledge of the Self, where is the mind not attached to sense-objects, where is contentment, and where is desirelessness for me who am ever devoid of the sense of duality? **

**3. Where is knowledge and where is ignorance; where is “I”, where is “this”, and where is “mine”; where is bondage and where is liberation? Where is an attribute to the nature of my self? **

**4. Where are prarabdha karmas, where is liberation-in-life, and where is even liberation-at-death for me, the ever undifferentiated? **

**5. Where is the doer or enjoyer, where is cessation of thought or the rising of thought, where is direct knowledge or reflected knowledge, for me who am ever Impersonal? **

**6. Where is the world and where is the aspirant for liberation; where is the contemplative man and where is the man of Knowledge, where is the soul in bondage and where is the liberated soul for me who am non-dual by nature? **

**7. Where are creation and destruction; where is the end and where the means; where are seeker and success for me abiding in my non-dual nature? **

**8. Where is the knower, the means to knowledge, the object of knowledge or knowledge itself; where is anything, and where is nothing for me who am ever pure? **

**9. Where is distraction, where is concentration; where is knowledge, where is delusion; where is joy and where is sorrow for me who am ever actionless? **

**10. Where is relativity, where is transcendence; where is happiness or misery for me who am ever beyond any discursive thought? **

**11. Where is illusion, where is the world; where is attachment or detachment; where is jiva or Brahman for me, who am ever pure? **

**12. Where is activity, where is inactivity; where is liberation or bondage for me who am ever immutable and indivisible, and established in the Self? **

**13. Where are instruction and scriptural injunction, where is the disciple and where is the preceptor; where, indeed, is the object of life for me who am absolute good and free from limitation? **

**14. Where is existence, where is non-existence; where is unity, where is duality? What need is there to say more? Nothing emanates from me. **

Nothing emanates from me: Because everything is Me (mind). There is no causality.

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