By looking tirelessly, I became quite empty and with that emptiness
all came back to me except the mind. I find I have lost the mind
irretrievably. I am neither conscious nor unconscious, I am beyond the
mind and its various states and conditions. Distinctions are created
by the mind and apply to the mind only. I am pure Consciousness
itself, unbroken awareness of all that is. I am in a more real state
than yours. I am undistracted by the distinctions and separations
which constitute a person. As long as the body lasts, it has its needs
like any other, but my mental process has come to an end. My thinking,
like my digestion, is unconscious and purposeful. I am not a person in
your sense of the word, though I may appear a person to you. I am that
infinite ocean of consciousness in which all happens. I am also beyond
all existence and cognition, pure bliss of being. There is nothing I
feel separate from, hence I am all. No thing is me, so I am nothing.
Life will escape, the body will die, but it will not affect me in the
least. Beyond space and time I am, uncaused, uncausing, yet the very
matrix of existence.
