Awareness watching awareness

AWARENESS WATCHING AWARENESS

Michael Langford found these verses of Guru Vachaka Kovai to be a confirmation of his approach. GVK are quotes of Bhagavan, set in verse by Muruganar and translated by Prof. Swaminathan.

862. ‘Losing the false ego in awareness, and firm abidance as awareness, is true clarity.’

1068. ‘In that flawless state of Being, the Self, without a sense of ‘I’ or ‘mine,’ the still abidance in and as pure Awareness, this is the noblest victory worth winning.’

1039. ‘That which unaided shines within as ‘I AM, I AM’ without a break, the strong, true Being free from all adjuncts, this pure Awareness, is our firm, authentic nature.’

1038. ‘Awareness is not a quality of the Self. The Self is without qualities. Awareness is not an action of the Self. The Self does nothing. The Self, our Being, IS Awareness.’

Ignoring thoughts:

921. ‘None can confront and overcome the mind. Ignore it, then, as something false, unreal. Know the Self as the real ground and stand firm-rooted in it.’

1192. ‘The ego image moves reflected in the mind’s waves. How to stop this movement, how to regain the state of stillness? Don’t observe these movements, seek the Self, instead. It is wisdom to gain and abide in silence.’

1193. ‘The seers declare that pure silence is firm abidance in egoless, true Awareness. For such thought free silence, the means is clinging to the Self within the Heart.’

917. ‘As in the sky covered with thick clouds no eye can see the glorious sun, one fails to see one’s own Self when the mind firmament is darkened by the dense cloud of thoughts.’

918. ‘Only He who has vanquished thought, sits like an emperor, on the neck of the majestic elephant Knowledge. Know for certain that the mind’s movements alone give rise to birth and every cruel pain and sorrow.’