Chapter 1 - Who Am I

The seeker asks:

How self realization comes

How will freedom come

How detachment happens

Sir, Please tell me all this.  1.1

The Seer explains:

My Dear! If you wish to be free

Ignore wordly objects like poison;

Practice pardon simplicity compassion

contentment and truth like nectar. 1.2

You are none of the things made out of
earth water fire air or sky; To be really free
know yourself as the witness of all these. 1.3

If you can see yourself as separate from your body

and rest within your mind;

Immediately you will be happy peaceful and free. 1.4

You do not belong to any caste like Brahmin etc.

You do not belong to any age or stage like young, old

You are nothing that can be seen by the eyes;

You are unbound formless witness of this world

Therefore relax. 1.5

Good bad pain pleasure are of the mind not yours

You are ever present;

You are neither doer nor bearer of any action

You are always free. 1.6

You alone are the seer of everything

As such you are always free;

Your only bondage is that you see the Seer elsewhere. 1.7

You are stung by the snake like illusion
that “I do things”;

Drink this nectar like conviction 
that “I do nothing” and stay happy. 1.8

Burn your forest of ignorance
with the fire of conviction that

“I am One, Pure, Awareness”

Thus be relieved and relax. 1.9

You are that Awareness, that supreme bliss

in which this world is appears like snake in a rope

Therefore live relaxed. 1.10

He who considers himself free is indeed free,

He who considers himself bound is bound indeed,

This saying “As you feel so you are” is indeed true. 1.11

Your Self is Indivisble Complete and Everywhere

It is Passive Unattached Peaceful Desireless

It is just a Witness and beyond mind;

It is misunderstood due to ignorance only. 1.12

Know your-Self as Indivisible Changeless Witness;
And free your-Self from self-doubt and
other inner and outer doubts. 1.13

You are chained by pride in your body since long;

Cut this chain with the sword of realisation that

“I am just Awareness” and be Happy. 1.14

You are Self-Illuminating Unattached Spotless Silence;

Your only bondage is your efforts to achieve these. 1.15

This world exists because of you

Your existence makes it Real

Your identity is Pure Awareness;

Hence do not follow your petty mind. 1.16

You are Desireless Angerless Changeless Independent

and a cool spot of unlimited intelligence;

Stay inside as just Awareness. 1.17


Anything with a shape is perishable like body
Anything shapeless is eternal like Self;
With this understanding illusions do not recur. 1.18

Just as on object appears both in and outside a mirror
Similarly our Self exists both in and outside our body. 1.19

Just as the same space exists in and outside a pot
Similarly our Self continuously exists in each of us.
1.20

End of Chapter 1