Ashtavakra Gita

This week I began composing a choral arrangement of Chapter VI of the Ashtavakra Gita.

The arrangement will be sung in the original Sanskrit, but here is my re-writing of John Fisher's translation:

I am space. unbounded.

While the world is like a jar.

I know this as knowledge.

I do not deny this.

I do not accept this.

I do not stop this.

I am the ocean.

While the abundance of matter is like a wave.

I know this as knowledge.

I do not deny this.

I do not accept this.

I do not stop this.

I am mother-of-pearl.

While the envisioned world is like iridescence.

I know this as knowledge.

I do not deny this.

I do not accept this.

I do not stop this.

Again.

I am in all.

While all is in me.

I know this as knowledge.

I do not deny this.

I do not accept this.

I do not stop this.