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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra · Dharana 40 · Verse 63

Body or universe as awareness

Hold one clear recognition, firmly and without wavering: this body, or this whole world, is made of awareness. The body does not have to disappear. What changes is identity. You stop taking the body, or the scene, as what you are, and you take awareness itself as what you are. Sit with it, or carry it through the day. Firmly means continuously, not once as a pleasant idea.

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Contemplate your whole body, or the whole world, as made of awareness, all at once, with a mind free of thought. Then comes the supreme dawning.

After you look: if it is still alive, stay with it. If it has gone quiet, let tomorrow bring the next one.