{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/cjw/cjw21.htm","path":"hin/cjw/cjw21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/cjw/cjw21.htm","text":"NOR earth nor water, fire nor liquid air,\n Nor ether, nor the powers, nor these in one;\n Undifferentiated, in dreamless perfect rest,\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nNor castes nor their divisions, rite nor rule,\n Are mine, nor fixing mind and thought and mood;\n No longer dreaming things not Self art 'I' and 'mine,'\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nNor mother, father, nor the gods and worlds,\n Nor Scriptures, offerings, shrines are there, they say,\n In dreamlessness abandoned by the lonely Self;\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nNor sectary of Cause or Lord or Life\n Knows That, nor follower of Saint or Rite,\n In perfect union, pure of all but Self,\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nNor upward, downward, nor within, without;\n Nor midward, backward, That, nor east nor west;\n All-present everywhere in partless unity,\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nNor white nor black nor yellow, That, nor red;\n Nor small nor very great nor short nor long;\n Formless, yet like a light, a star;\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I. p. 152\nNor teacher, teaching, learner, what is learned;\n Nor thou nor I nor this expanded world;\n Conscious of its own form, from error free,\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nNor waking, mine, nor dream, nor dreamless sleep;\n Nor fire of life or heart or seeing soul;\n These three are of unwisdom; but the fourth,\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nEven expanded for the sake of Self--\n Self, that, still perfect, on no other rests--\n All the wide world besides is little worth.\n That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I.\nNor is this first with any second to it;\n Nor lonely this, nor yet has it compeers;\n Nor is this secondless One void or filled with aught;\n How shall I tell this perfect wisdom's crowd?","title":"The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom by Shankara: Other Writings: The Song of the Self","type":"page"}