Atmavichara - Rudra

«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

In the waking I perceive the world

In the dream I create my world

In deep sleep, being blissfully ignorant

I destroy them all

«Sthoola sookshma kaarana shariraad vyatiriktah

Panchakoshaatiitah san avasthaa trayasaakshi

Saccidaananda svaroopah san yastishthati sa aatmaa»

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!