Prakaraṇa 2 · Verse 50
चिद्-एकघन-तत्त्वाय नमस् ते जगद्-आत्मने
cid-ekaghana-tattvāya namas te jagad-ātmane
Salutations to you, tattva of the single mass of consciousness, Ātman of the world.
The Sthiti Prakaraṇa closes as it opened: with reverence for the cid-ekaghana. This structural repetition is intentional: the text is a maṇḍala, a circle returning to its center. What was stated in verse 38 is reaffirmed here, but now imbued with all the reasoning in between. This is not mechanical repetition; it is a deepened saṃskāra. The sādhaka who has followed these 50 verses is not where they began. They have traversed the circle of viveka: from the analogy of the dream, through the unreality of the world, the omnipresence of cit, the nature of māyā, to the revelation that nothing is born nor dies, that everything is the vilāsa of the one consciousness. The final reverence is that of a sādhaka who no longer asks; they give thanks. They do not seek; they have found. They do not fear; they have seen. The namas is pūrṇa, full, because it flows from recognized pūrṇatā. The jagad-ātman is not an object of external worship; it is the very nature of the worshipper. To salute the jagad-ātman is to salute oneself in all beings. Thus ends the Sthiti Prakaraṇa: not with a conclusion, but with a reverence that is knowledge, and a knowledge that is reverence. Om tat sat.
The Sthiti Prakaraṇa closes as it opened: with reverence for the cid-ekaghana. This structural repetition is intentional: the text is a maṇḍala, a circle returning to its center. What was stated in verse 38 is reaffirmed here, but now imbued with all the reasoning in between. This is not mechanical repetition; it is a deepened saṃskāra. The sādhaka who has followed these 50 verses is not where they began. They have traversed the circle of viveka: from the analogy of dream, through the unreality of the world, the omnipresence of cit, the nature of māyā, to the revelation that nothing is born nor dies, that everything is a vilāsa of the one consciousness. The final reverence is that of a sādhaka who no longer asks; they give thanks. They do not seek; they have found. They do not fear; they have seen. The namas is pūrṇa, full, because it flows from recognized pūrṇatā. The jagad-ātman is not an object of external worship; it is the very nature of the worshiper. To salute the jagad-ātman is to salute oneself in all beings. Thus ends the Sthiti Prakaraṇa: not with a conclusion, but with a reverence that is knowledge, and a knowledge that is reverence. Om tat sat.