A sweet treat from the retreat

'Mā', knowledge with a prefix of 'pra' becomes pramāna

True knowledge makes one free, bestows nirvāna

Pramanā are fivefold, make things known in the drama

Atmā is unavailable to these fivefold pramanā

Knocking of the knower his ahankārā

What your sense organs can perceive is Pratyakṣā

What you know by one step inference is Anumāna

Knowing by analogy and comparison is Upamāna

Postulations made by multi step inference is Arthāpatti

Knowing by proof of absence is Anupalabdhi

All these fail to reveal Atmā

One may not say 'I know' Atmā

One may not say I don't know Atmā

One may say neither I know nor I don't know

That is the beauty of Atmā jñanam

That which was revealed by īśvara

That which is meditated in Omkara

That which is told in Upaniṣads

That when a Guru unfolds

Will free you from the folds.

Summary of the retreat that I tweet

Will remain as a treat when we read

Let us enjoy this internal sweet

Without a fear of meet and greet

Om and love from Pennsylvania street

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