This is you—the Self. I know you as the Self. You are both the knower and the known. Two in one, one in two; this mystery is wondrous, the resolution of all mysteries. I see you clearly, I hold you fast. You, who are the known and the knower, the object and the subject, the distinctions themselves—you are infinite, and nothing exists apart from you. I am finite, limited, and you unfold countless things before me, drawing every object through the subject, bringing the known into the knower. What comes from beyond my finitude strangely becomes my own.
Universal Self, you manifest as my higher Self. The individual soul spreads wonderfully as the Universal Soul. This very manifestation of you is liberation. In this, all my bonds are severed. The bondage of my ignorance, the limits of my finitude, the chains of my restlessness, the fetters of my sorrow, the shackles of my sin, the bondage of my lovelessness—all are cut asunder, and I am united with you.
In this state of all-auspicious union, I wish to remain. Remove all obstacles to this union. Yet I remain in this union but for moments; most of the time, I fall from it. And when I fall from union, I believe that besides you, the Self, there exist countless other things.
You have shown me countless times that you are infinite, the support of all, pervading all, taking all forms. Yet when I fall from union, that vision slips from my grasp, becoming merely a conclusion of the intellect. This conclusion cannot grant me peace. The countless distressing events of the world, the countless painful thoughts of my mind fill me with despair. Only when I come to you and am united with you in union does that despair depart.
If my love for you were deep enough, perhaps my union would never break. And even if it broke, I would be satisfied in love itself; the world could not afflict me, could not embitter me. I would wait with a peaceful heart for reunion with you.
But the anguish of my mind disturbs me, makes me fearful, brings thoughts of lovelessness, awakens petty desires and cravings, carries me far from you. You are infinite in form, without duality, the form of the cosmos itself. Unite me with you in unbroken union.
I see you everywhere, hear you everywhere, touch you everywhere, think in all thoughts, love in all love. In truth, apart from you there is nothing to see, nothing to hear, nothing to touch, nothing to think, nothing to love.
Then why do I fall into delusion? Why do I think I have abandoned you? Is it because I have not learned to love? Yet if I do not love, why does separation from you cause me pain? Why do I long for union with you? Why does union with you bring me joy?
Life is mystery itself. That you are the answer to all mysteries—this you have made the intellect understand. Now make it understood through deed, felt in daily experience, made real in a life of integration. Dissolve all struggle, make life blessed.