Rudra - Atmavichara lyrics

"I am" therefore let the enquiry begin! The Self is the object to be known The knower too is non-separate from the self So who am I? What am I? All my knowledge fails to reveal what I am My ignorance causes fear of the world and my mortality I doubt my self-existence. Is it or is it not? The enquiry is in knowing what I am not Am I the body or am I the mind? Pain, pleasure, sorrow, tranquillity All of which arises in me I witness them all standing apart from them! Not the body nor the breath Not the ego nor the mind [solo - selvam] In the waking I perceive the world In the dream I create my world In deep sleep, being blissfully ignorant I destroy them all [solo - selvam] "Sthoola sookshma kaarana shariraad vyatiriktah Panchakoshaatiitah san avasthaa trayasaakshi Saccidaananda svaroopah san yastishthati sa aatmaa" [*] [solo - selvam] Not part of the universe but it in me In me it is yet I am not in it Creation, sustenance and dissolution I cause them all!!!!! The one supreme is the I, like the eye of the eye Existent in every thought, in every word and in every deed Not an isolated experience but the only experience I exist, I am aware, I am, I am-. Neither the body nor the breath! Neither the ego nor the mind All of which arises in me I witness them all standing apart from them! [* a verse from Tattva Bodha]