Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā
“Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone beyond beyond. Awakened!
You get to the other shore, then you go beyond the other shore, then you go beyond the beyond. While you are going to the other shore you are still in duality, still in the mind. You contemplate your direction, your destination, but to extinguish the mind you have to proceed ‘beyond the beyond’… beyond any place mind can imagine.
There is another word used to express this moment, the situation in which the mind is gone, it is the exclamation ’Swaha’, it follows the disappearance of the mind in the beyond devoid of form…
It is the last exclamation of the mind when it disappears, or the exclamation one utters when the mind is totally gone. It doesn’t have a precise meaning. Mind cannot grasp or describe that state, so the word that comes from that place, does not have a understandable meaning to the mind.
At the moment of awakening this exclamation happens.
To what could we hold in that place? Who or what could hold to wisdom, illumination, liberation, freedom in that place?
Also this word, is useless.
There, everything is extinguished.
Samsara and nirvana are done away with, because they exist in relation to each other.
Mind, manifestation, creator, creation are all extinguished.
The indweller is totally gone.
It is total liberation from the mind, the endless cycle of birth, death and manifestation.
It happens in an instant.
Papaji
