CHAPTER 1

    You are Love Dancing as Emptiness

    Namaskar,
    Before the beginning you are pure Consciousness.
    You are the Fullness of Love in Love
    and the Emptiness of Awareness.
    You are Existence and the Peace beyond peace.
    You are that screen on which all is projected.

    You are the Light of Knowledge,
    the One who gave the concept of creation to the creator.
    Forget what can be forgotten and know yourself
    to be that which can never be forgotten.
    You are the substratum on which everything moves, let it move.
    You are Now, you are Nowness:
    what "I" is there which can be out of this Now?
    You are Truth and only the Truth Is.

    You are inactivity.
    Activity is your reflection, your play, your world.
    The sun is inactivity, the mirrors are activity.

    You are this precious Moment, presence itself,
    any breeze that touches you will sanctify even demons.

    You are the One which is aware
    of the awareness of objects and ideas.
    You are the One which is even more silent than awareness.
    You are the Life which precedes the concept of life.

    Your nature is Silence and it is not attainable,
    It always Is.

    "Space" was your first notion
    and you took Sat-chit-ananda as your first form.
    The world is your mind
    and it all arises from your heart.

    Here and Now is your heart. As love
    you abide in the cave of this heart
    from where all time and space arise.

    You are the Inside which is neither inside nor outside.
    Mind landing nowhere is Inside, no walls is inside.
    You are the existence in all atoms,
    know This and you are bliss.

    You are Emptiness, the ultimate substance:
    removing Emptiness out of Emptiness
    leaves only Emptiness because there is nothing beyond It.

    All rises from, dances about in, and returns to This.
    As ocean rises as a wave to dance,
    so you are this dancing Emptiness!
    Nothing is out of this Emptiness and so it is the Fullness.
    Emptiness is between is and is not.
    To be Free, you need the firm conviction
    that you are this Substratum, this Peace, this Emptiness.

    You are what all happenings happen in.
    What happens must happen so remain unaffected as Peace.
    Be peaceful and this Peace will spread.
    What rises from Peace is Peace and
    what rises from confusion is confusion.
    So be Peace and give this to the universe,
    it is all you should do.
    Even thinking "I am Peace" disturbs this Peace,
    so just be Quiet, be as you are.

    You are Being, you are not "had been,"
    and not "would be," but "Being."

    You are the Timelessness in which no death can enter
    for where there is no time there is no death.
    That Timelessness is Now, and That is Being.

    Being is always shining, I Am is the Light of Being.
    This Diamond cannot hide, and can never be hidden.
    When there is no mind the face shines with beauty and innocence.
    Just simply be quiet, just be as you are.

    You are the Space which never moves and never travels.
    Inner and outer space is due only to name and form.
    Remove this form from mind by removing attachment
    to any object, thought, or action.

    You are the garden of joy,
    to be happy you need nobody else.
    You are in the garden of joy,
    but when you think of old things you become sad.
    This joy, this Moment, will destroy mind and suffering,
    because this Moment is Happiness.
    So stop going to the past moments in order to suffer.

    Unconditioned Consciousness is Happiness
    and Quietness with no when, no where, just Now.
    This Happiness conditioned by thought becomes mind.
    Even the "I," the first condition, is a disturbance in Happiness.
    Due to desires and hopes of the ego no one is happy.
    So to come to Happiness do not think, or rise to a desire,
    simply keep Quiet, because thinking is the graveyard.

    To be happy you should have and hold nothing,
    otherwise your pockets will smell like dead fish.
    My dear friend, Happiness is not an experience,
    It is your nature so you need to do nothing for it.
    Only Self knowledge brings Happiness because
    Happiness is the nature of Self.

    Here, Here is the wine that nobody knows.
    Everything is in Here and this is Consciousness.
    Consciousness is the substratum of everything in the Universe;
    It, you, resides in every atom of every...