ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Knowledge of the Self
Ashtavakra said:
15.5
Attachment and aversion
are attributes of the mind.
You are not the mind.
You are Consciousness itself--
changeless, undivided, free.
Go in happiness.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Knowledge of the Self
Ashtavakra said:
15.3
This knowledge of Truth
turns an eloquent, wise and active man
mute, empty and inert.
Lovers of the world therefore shun it.
15.4
You are not the body.
You do not have a body.
You neither do nor enjoy.
You are Awareness only-the timeless Witness.
You are free.
Go in happiness.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Knowledge of the Self
Ashtavakra said:
15.1
A man of open intuition
may realize the Self upon
hearing a casual instruction,
while a man of cluttered intellect
inquires bewildered for a lifetime.
15.2
Aversion to the world's offerings is liberation.
Attraction to the world's offerings
is the suffering of bondage.
This is the truth.
Now do as you please.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Tranquility
Janaka said
14.3
I have realized the Supreme Self,
the Witness, the One.
I am indifferent
to bondage and freedom.
I have no need for liberation.
14.4
The innee condition
of one who is devoid of doubt
yet moves among creatures of illusion
can only be known by those like him
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Tranquility
Janaka said
14.1
Though appearing asleep like other men,
one whose interest in the world is exhausted,
whose mind has been emptied,
who think only by inadvertence,
is in Reality awake.
14.2
When desire has melted,
how can there be wealth,
or friends, or the seduction of senses?
What use is scripture and knowledge?
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Happiness
Janaka said
13.5
I have nothing to gain or lose
by standing, walking or sitting down.
So whether I stand walk or sit.
I am happy.
13.6
I do not lose by sleeping
nor attain by effort.
Not thinking in terms of loss or gain
I am happy.
13.7
Pleasure and pain fluctuate
and are inconsistent.
Without good or bad
I live happily.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Happiness
Janaka said:
13.3
Realizing that nothing is done,
I do what comes
and am happy.
13.4
Yogis who preach
either effort or non- effort
are still attached to the body.
I neither dissociate nor associate
with any of that
and am happy.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Happiness
Janaka said:
13.1
The tranquil state
of knowing Self alone is rare-
even among those who own but a loincloth.
I therefore neither renounce nor accept
and am happy.
13.2
The body is strained by practices.
The tongue tires of scripture.
The mind numbs with meditation.
Detached from all this,
I live as I am.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Abiding in the Self
Janaka said:
12.7
Thinking of the unthinkable One
unavoidably conjures thought.
I choose no-thought
and remain here.
12.8
Blessed is he
who attains this by effort.
Blessed is he
who is such by nature.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Abiding in the Self
Janaka said:
12.5
The four stages of life,
life without stages,
meditation, renunciation, objects of mind-
nothing but distractions.
I am forever here.
12.6
Doing and not doing
both arise from ignorance.
I know this.
And I am here.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Abiding in the Self
Janaka said:
12.3
Effort is required
to concentrate a distracted mind
superimposed with illusion.
Knowing this, I remain here.
12.4
Nothing to reject,
nothing to accept.
No joy, no sorrow.
Lord God I am here.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Abiding in the Self
Janaka said:
12.1
Becoming first intolerant of action,
then of excessive speech,
then of thought itself,
I come to be here.
12.2
Neither sounds nor other sense perceptions
attract my attention.
Even the self is unperceived.
The mind is free, undistracted one-pointed.
And here I am.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Wisdom
Ashtavakra said:
11.7
" From Brahma to the last blade of grass--
I alone exist."
One who knows this for certain
becomes immaculate, serene, unconflicted.
Attainment has no meaning.
11.8
One who knows for certain
that this manifold and wonderful universe
is nothing
becomes desireless Awareness
and abides in the stillness of No-thing.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Wisdom
Ashtavakra said:
11.5
One who has realized
that only by caring
is misery caused in the world
becomes free, happy, serene, desireless.
11.6
"I am not the body, nor is the
body my possession -
I am Awareness itself."
One who realizes this for cerain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Wisdom
Ashtavakra said:
11.3
One who knows for certain
that adversity and success
come and go in obedience to destiny
becomes content.
He neither desires nor grieves.
11.4
One who knows for certain
that birth and death, happiness and misery,
come and go in obedience to destiny
sees nothing to accomplish.
He engages in non-action,
and in action remains unattached.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Wisdom
Ashtavakra said:
11.1
Existence, non-existence, change--
this is the nature of things.
Realizing this,
stillness, serenity and bliss
naturally follow.
11.2
One who knows for certain that
"Self creates All and is alone"
becomes still, desireless, unattached.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Quietude
Ashtavakra said:
10.6
Attached as you have been to
Kingdoms, sons, wives, bodies, pleasures-
life after life-
still they are now lost forever.
10.7
Prosperity, pleasure, pious deeds..
Enough!
In the dreary forest of the world
the mind finds no rest.
10.8
For how many lifetimes
have you done hard and painful labor
with body, mind and speech?
It is time to stop.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Quietude
Ashtavakra said:
10.4
Bondage and desire are the same.
Destroy desire and be free.
Only by detaching from the world
does one joyfully realize Self.
10.5
You are One-
Awareness itself.
The universe is neither aware
nor does it exist.
Even ignorance is unreal.
What is left to know?
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Quietude
Ashtavakra said:
10.1
Give up desire,
which is the enemy.
Give up prosperity,
Which is born of mischief and good works.
Be indifferent.
10.2
Look upon
friends, lands, wealth, houses, wives, gifts-
and all apparent good fortune-
as a passing show,
as a dream lasting three to five days.
10.3
Where there is desire, there is the world.
Be firm in non- attachment.
Be free of desire.
Be happy.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Detachment
Ashtavakra said:
9.7
In the myriad forms of the universe
see the primal element alone.
You will be instantly free,
and abide in Self.
9.8
Desire creates the world-renounce it.
Renounce desires
and you renounce the world.
Now you may live as you are.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Detachment
Ashtavakra said:
9.5
The greatest seers, saints and yogis
agree on very little.
Seeing this,
who could not be indifferent to knowledge
and become still?
9.6
One who
through worldly indifference,
through serenity and reason,
sees his true nature and escape illusion-
is he not a true teacher?
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Detachment
Ashtavakra said:
9.3
Seeing all things as threefold suffering,
the sage becomes still.
Insubstantial, transient, contemptible-
the world is fit only for rejection.
9.4
Was there an age or time
men existed without opposites?
Leave the opposites behind.
Be content with what comes,
Perfection.
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA
Detachment
Ashtavakra said:
9.1
Opposing forces,
duties done and left undone-
when does it end
and for whom?
Considering this, be ever desireless,
let go of all things,
and to the world turn an indifferent eye.
9.2
Rare and blessed is one
whose desire to live,
to enjoy and to know,
has been extinguished by observing
the ways of men.
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