The Truth Is...

Self is what you are, You are That

Fathomlessness in which experience and concepts appear.

Self is the Moment which has no coming or going.

It is the Heart, Atman, Emptiness.

It shines to Itself, by Itself, in Itself.

Self is what gives breath to life,

you need not search for It, It is Here.

You are That through which you would search.

You are what you are looking for!

And That is all it is.

Only Self is.



You were never born, and though only desire takes birth,

Nothing has ever happened, Nothing has ever existed!

This Nothingness you are, and this is the Ultimate Truth.

You are totally alone because Beauty alone is.

Only Self is.



You simply cannot deny that you are Consciousness.

You dwell in the Lotus of the Heart as Joy in Bliss.

Keep Quiet and you will reveal your Self to your Self.

Self Knowledge is that which is worth sacrificing anything for,

because everything else is just a mirage rising out of Consciousness.



Self is the indweller of all Beings,

so love of others is Love of Self, your Self.

Self is the greatest Love and the dearest of all lovers.

Love is the attraction of Self to Self in Self.

There is nothing besides this Love, this source of Joy.

See your own beauty and you are this Indweller, this Love

and the beauty itself.



Neti, Neti; but what you Are cannot be rejected.

It is Now only; waking or sleeping or dreaming,

It is still the Now which only Is.

Only Self is.



This present Moment is Light, is Self.

This Moment is not bondage or freedom.

It is most precious beyond ideation.

This Moment is the screen on which all projects.

It is always Still and Untouched and it is out of time.

There is no difference between the Ultimate and this Presence.

To be in this Moment abandon all desires,

including the desire to be in it.



That which has no name or form

has millions of names:

Being, Awareness, Bliss, Isness, Atman, Truth, self,

Auspiciousness, Beauty, Freedom, Divine Love,

Fullness, Emptiness, Consciousness, Nowness,

Effortlessness, Hereness, Silence, Brahman.

As the tongue speaks the word 'tongue'

so you speak these names.

To avoid the veiling of your nature with preconceptions,

Buddha spoke of self in negative terms

like Anata, Untouched, Unmanifest, Unseen,

Unapproachable, Unknowable, and Unstained.



Before notions and creations you exist,

so there are no words

for That beyond words and language.

Self doesn't need to understand Itself,

Freedom is before the concept of freedom.

You are what remains

when the concepts of 'I', mind and past disappear.

Nothingness is no concept.



Identify as Peace-Beauty-Love, do not experience it.

Know, 'I am inactive, the activity takes place in me,

I am That, I am the screen, I never come and I never go'.

Identify as Consciousness Itself.

If you do not forget who you are,

this appearance of activity is the Cosmic Dance.

..............Sri H.W.L. Poonja,