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inside of you, waiting.
AMAZING AM I, I BOW DOWN TO MYSELF.
AMAZING AM I, I BOW DOWN TO MYSELF. ALTHOUGH I HAVE A BODY, I AM ONE.
Two appear, but still I am non-dual. This appearance of two is only on the outside, like seeing the branches of a tree. If you count the branches there are many. If you come down the tree to the trunk they all become one. It is just the same in the world, many are seen but coming back to the source, they become one. It is the expanse of the one.
AMAZING AM I, I BOW DOWN TO MYSELF. ALTHOUGH I HAVE A BODY, I AM ONE. I NEITHER GO ANYWHERE NOR COME FROM ANYWHERE BUT EXIST SURROUNDING THE UNIVERSE.
Listen! Janak is saying that I exist surrounding the world, I have encircled the world. I am the definition of the world. I am unlimited. The world is inside of me.
Usually we see ourselves as inside the world. This is an unparalleled transformation. The whole gestalt has changed.
Janak says the world exists inside of me. Like clouds arising in the sky and disappearing, whole ages arise and dissolve in me. I am formless, I am the witness, I am only the observer, I am surrounding all.
Understand it like this: when you were a child then one form was contained in your sky -- childhood. Then you became a young man, and that form disappeared and another cloud surrounded you. You assumed a new form, you became a young man. When you were a child you didn't have any idea of sex. Even if someone explained you would be unable to understand. When you became young, new desires arose, desire put on new clothes, new colors flowered, your life took on a new style. Then you started getting old. Youth also left. The noise and clamor of youth also went. Desires too washed away. Now you are surprised, that you went down into those desires. Now you are shocked to think that you were such an idiot, that you were so foolish.
One day or another every old man -- if he has really succeeded in seeing life a little -- is filled with surprise at, "What kinds of things I was running after -- money, power, infatuations, women or men, running after all sorts of things. What all was I chasing after? I really chased
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