Tat Tvam Nasi

Is God —
Or whatever is called
The ultimate —

Aware of —
Your thoughts, dreams
Feelings, memories
Pleasures and pain —
Your world

No —
Only you — if anyone at all —
Have access to your world
As it appears to you —
Out there or in there

No one —
Not even God
Is aware of
Any aspect of your world

Not even you
Are fully aware of you
Neither your outward form
Nor your inner world

Even the ones right beside you
Are aware — at most, dimly
If at all — of you

How could it be otherwise
Has it ever —
Been shown
That anyone
Was aware of your world
Inner or outer

No —
Even to say that
Awareness is aware
Of any world at all —
Is but a human thought

It has never been experienced
And can never be so
That awareness is aware
Of your particular world
Or any other

It is consciousness —
A dead mirror
Of bodies and minds
Reflecting other dead mirrors
Of other bodies and minds —

Convinced it exists
Contains, and is aware
Of what shimmers
On its surface

But that dead mirror
Is not conscious —
Of what it reflects
It is dependent —
Without what appears upon it
It has no existence
Is not known
By itself or by any other

The reflections appear
But are not witnessed
The mirror reflects
But does not see

Therefore —
That Thou Aren’t

Not, That Thou Art
But, That Thou Aren’t

Whatever your world
Inner or outer —
No That — no ultimate reality —
Is aware of it

For if That were connected
To your world
That would be in relationship
Would depend upon it —
And cease
To be the ultimate

For if That is absolute —
If at all it is —
Then it cannot be connected
To your world

But one thing is certain
Thou Aren’t
Neither absolute
Nor That