FIVE VERSES ON INWARD RELEASE ~ Narayana Guru.

What name? Caste? Trade? How old?
From questions such, when one is free,
He gains release. .

Come, go, go not, enter, what seekest?
From utterances such, when one is free,
He gains release. .

Departest when? When arrived? Whence and even who?
From questions such, when one is free,
He gains release. .

I or thou; this and that; inside or out; or none at all;
From cogitations such when one is free,
He gains release. .

To the known and the unknown equalized;
differenceless to one’s own or that of others;
even to the name of such, indifferent;

From all considerations such, one freed,
Himself becomes He, the one released.