The Wisdom of the Yoga Sutras
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Good morning beautiful cloud angel in the sky,
Who vanished as quickly as she arose,
Who am I?
Who is the soul of pure awareness that holds no judgements.
Which only sees things as they are.
Clouds upon clouds of images rushing by.
Which is not caught in the past or the future?
Yoga teaches that with practice,
I can come to rest in my soul whom watches,
instead of my egotistical self that discriminates.
My ego does not see things clearly.
My self sees everything differently than your self.
But our souls simply see.
Are they the same seeing?
To a yogi, once our conscious senses, our ego and mind come to rest,
Consciousness comes to resemble the unchanging awareness of the soul.
The soul can reflect itself now being perceived.
Then we have fulfilled our purpose.
As soon as we can distinguish between consciousness and awareness,
ego and soul,
the ongoing construction of a self ceases.
We are no longer bound by karma, mind giving rise to form.
All worldly objects, including our thoughts, simply are.
Rising and falling in the eternal present.
All of our external reality becomes a cloud of the present moment, with no judgments attached.
Our purely aware soul, our unchanging witness rises forth.
With our conscious ego self, now oriented to the soul self, we gravitate to freedom.
For the wise who cultivate uninterrupted discrimination
between Soul Awareness and all that it is regarding,
Freedom is near.
The phenominal world exists as a common reality, but it no longer appears as it did.
And suffering ceases.
The soul can now stand alone, grounded in it’s very nature, free and untouched by phenomena.
The soul self no longer believes itself to be the arising and falling of the mind.
It sees clearly. The soul has awakened, enlightened.
I am. We are.
