Chapter 2 · The Disciple's Joy at Self-realization

Verse 2.1 · Janaka

“O, I am spotless, tranquil, Pure Consciousness and beyond Nature. All this time I have been duped by illusion.”

aho nirañjanaḥ śānto bodho'haṃ prakṛteḥ paraḥ…

Verse 2.2 · Janaka

“As I alone reveal this body, even so do I reveal this universe. Therefore mine is all this universe, or verily nothing is mine.”

yathā prakāśayāmyeko dehamenaṃ tathā jagat…

Verse 2.3 · Janaka

“O, having renounced the universe along with the body, I am now perceiving the Supreme Self through wisdom received from my Guru.”

sa śarīramaho viśvaṃ parityajya mayādhunā…

Verse 2.4 · Janaka

“As waves, foam and bubbles are not different from water, even so the universe emanating from the Self is not different from it.”

yathā na toyato bhinnāstaraṅgāḥ phenabudbudāḥ…

Verse 2.5 · Janaka

“As cloth when analysed is found to be nothing but thread, even so this universe, duly considered, is nothing but the Self.”

tantumātro bhaved eva paṭo yadvad vicāritaḥ…

Verse 2.6 · Janaka

“Just as sugar generated in sugarcane juice is wholly pervaded by it, even so the universe produced in me is permeated by me through and…”

yathaivekṣurase kḷptā tena vyāptaiva śarkarā…

Verse 2.7 · Janaka

“The world appears from the ignorance of the Self and disappears with the knowledge of the Self, even as the snake appears from the…”

ātmājñānājjagadbhāti ātmajñānānna bhāsate…

Verse 2.8 · Janaka

“Light is my very nature and I am no other than that. When the universe manifests itself, verily then it is I that shine.”

prakāśo me nijaṃ rūpaṃ nātiriktosmy ahaṃ tataḥ…

Verse 2.9 · Janaka

“O, the universe appears in me being conceived through ignorance, even as silver appears in the mother-of-pearl, snake in the rope and water…”

aho vikalpitaṃ viśvamajñānānmayi bhāsate…

Verse 2.10 · Janaka

“Just as a jug dissolves into earth, a wave into water or a bracelet into gold, even so the universe which has emanated from me will…”

matto vinirgatam viśvaṃ mayyeva layameṣyati…

Verse 2.11 · Janaka

“Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself who know no decay and survive even the destruction of the world from Brahma down to the clump of grass.”

aho ahaṃ namo mahyaṃ vināśo yasya nāsti me…

Verse 2.12 · Janaka

“Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself who though with body am one, who neither go anywhere nor come from anywhere but abide pervading the…”

aho ahaṃ namo mahyameko'haṃ dehavānapi…

Verse 2.13 · Janaka

“Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself! There is none so capable as I, who am bearing the universe for all eternity without touching it with…”

aho ahaṃ namo mahyaṃ dakṣo nāstīha matsamaḥ…

Verse 2.14 · Janaka

“Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself who have nothing, or have all that is thought and spoken of.”

aho ahaṃ namo mahyaṃ yasya me nāsti kiñcana…

Verse 2.15 · Janaka

“Knowledge, knower and knowable — these three do not in reality exist. I am that stainless Self in which this triad appears through…”

jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ tathā jñātā tritayaṃ nāsti vāstavam…

Verse 2.16 · Janaka

“Oh, duality is the root of misery. There is no other remedy for it except the realization that all objects of experience are false and that…”

dvaitamūlamaho duḥkhaṃ nānyattasyāsti bheṣajam…

Verse 2.17 · Janaka

“I am Pure Intelligence. Through ignorance I have imposed limitation upon myself. Constantly reflecting in this way, I am abiding in the…”

bodhamātro'hamajñānād upādhiḥ kalpito mayā…

Verse 2.18 · Janaka

“I have neither bondage nor freedom. The illusion having lost its support has ceased. Oh, the universe, though existing in me, does not in…”

na me bandho'sti mokṣo vā bhrāntiḥ śāntā nirāśrayā…

Verse 2.19 · Janaka

“I have known for certain that the body and the universe are nothing and that the Self is only Pure Consciousness. So on which now can…”

saśarīramidaṃ viśvaṃ na kiñciditi niścitam…

Verse 2.20 · Janaka

“Body, heaven and hell, bondage and freedom, as also fear — all these are mere imagination. What have I to do with all these — I whose…”

śarīraṃ svarganarakau bandhamokṣau bhayaṃ tathā…

Verse 2.21 · Janaka

“O, I do not find any duality. Even the multitude of human beings has therefore become like a wilderness. What should I attach myself to?”

aho jansamūhe'pi na dvaitaṃ paśyato mama…

Verse 2.22 · Janaka

“Neither am I this body, nor am I embodied. I am not Jīva; I am Chit. This indeed was my bondage — that I had thirst for life.”

nāhaṃ deho na me deho jīvo nāhamahaṃ hi cit…

Verse 2.23 · Janaka

“O! In me, the limitless ocean, diverse waves of worlds are produced forthwith on the rising of the wind of the mind.”

aho bhuvanakallolairvicitrai rdrak samutthitam…

Verse 2.24 · Janaka

“With the calming of the wind of the mind in the infinite ocean of myself, the ark of the universe of Jīva the trader unfortunately meets…”

mayyananntamahāmbhodhau cittavāte praśāmyati…

Verse 2.25 · Janaka

“How wonderful! In me, the shoreless ocean, the waves of individual selves rise, strike each other, play for a time and disappear, each…”

mayyananntamahāmbhodhāv āścaryaṃ jīvavīcayaḥ…