Bhagavad Gita: Buddhi-yogad dhananjaya Buddau saranam (Text 49, Ch2, Contents of Gita Summarized)

Durena hy avaram karma

Buddhi-yogad dhananjaya

Buddau saranam anviccha

Krpanah phala-hetavah 

(Text 49, Ch2, Contents of Gita Summarized)

                                  

Meaning:  O Dhananjaya, keep all abominable activities far distant by devotional service and in that consciousness surrender unto the Lord. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their work are misers.

Durena: discard it at a long distance; hi: certainly,   avaram: abominable,  karma: activity, Buddhi-yogat: on the strength of Krsna consciousness(Supreme consciousness)  dhananjaya: O conqueror of wealth, Buddhau: in such consciousness;  saranam: full surrender,  anviccha: try for,Krpanah: misers,  phala-hetavah: those desiring furtive results.

Bhagavad Gita: Yoga-sthah Kuru Karmani (Text 48, Ch2, Contents of Gita Summarized)

Yoga-sthah Kuru Karmani

Sangam tyaktva dhananjaya

Siddy-asiddyoh samo bhutva

Samatvam yoga ucyate (Text 48, Ch2, Contents of Gita Summarized)

                                  

Meaning: Perform your duty equipoised,  O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure, such equanimity is called yoga.

(Yoga-sthah : equipoised, Kuru: Perform, Karmani: Your duties,  Sangam: attachment,  tyaktva: Giving up,  dhananjaya : O Arjuna, Siddy-asiddyoh: in success and failure, samoh: equipoised, bhutva: becoming,  Samatvam: equanimity, yogah: Yoga(to concentrate the mind upon the Supreme by controlling the ever –disturbing senses), ucyate: is called.)

Ashtavakra Gita : Liberation in life

Janaka Said:

20.11

Where is illusion?
Where is existence?
Where is attachment or non-attachment?
Where is person?
Where is God?
I am Awareness.

20.12

Where is activity or inactivity?
Where is liberation or bondage?
I am timeless, indivisible.
I am Self alone.

20.13

Where are principles and scriptures?
Where is the disciple or teacher?
Where is the reason for life?
I am boundless, Absolute.

20.14

Where is existence or non-existence?
Where is Unity or duality?
Nothing emanates from me.
No more can be said.

".....You are self....."

Ashtavakra Gita: Liberation in life

Janaka Said:

20.6

Where is the world?
Where is the seeker of liberation”
Where is the contemplative?
Where is the man of Knowledge?
Where is the soul in bondage?
Where is the liberated soul?
My nature is Unity.

20.7

Where are creation and destruction?
Where is the end and the means?
Where is the seeker?
Where is attainment?
I am One.

20.8

Where is the knower?
Where is knowing?
Where is the known, or knowledge itself?
Where is anything?
Where is nothing?
I am pure Awareness.

20.9

Where is distraction, concentration,
knowledge or delusion?
Where is joy or sorrow?
I am Stillness.

20.10

Where is the relative?
Where the transcendent?
Where is happiness or misery?
I am empty of thought.

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Ashtavakra Gita: Liberation in life

Janaka said:

20.1

Where are the elements, the body,
the organs, the mind?
Where is the void?
Where is despair?
My nature is transparent clearness.

20.2

Where is scripture?
Where is Self-knowledge?
Where is no-mind?
Where is contentment and freedom from desire?
I am empty of two-ness.

20.3

Where is Knowledge and ignorance?
Where is “I”?
Where is “this”?
Where is “mine”?
Where is bondage and liberation?
Self has no attributes.

20.4

Where is the unfolding of karma?
Where is liberation-in-life,
or even liberation at death?
There is only One.

20.5

Where is the doer or enjoyer?
Where is the origin or end of thought?
Where is direct or reflected knowledge?
There is no person here.

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Ashtavakra Gita: Repose in the Self

Janaka Said:

19.6

Where is close or far,
in or out,
gross or subtle?
I abide in the glory of Self.

19.7

Where is life and death?
Where is the world and worldly relations?
Where is distraction and stillness?
I abide in the glory of Self.

19.8

There is no need to talk about
the three motivations of life(righteousness, wealth, enjoyment).
To talk of yoga is purposeless.
Even talking about Truth is irrelevant.
I rest in Self alone.

Ashtavakra Gita : Repose in the Self

Janaka said:

19.1

With the tongs of Truth
I have plucked the thorn of thinking
from the innermost cave
of my heart.

19.2

Where is meditation, pleasure,
prosperity or discrimination?
Where is duality?
Where even is Unity?
I abide in the glory of Self.

19.3

Where is past and future,
or even present?
Where is space, or even eternity?
I abide in the glory of Self.

19.4

Where is Self?
Where is not-Self?
Where is good and evil, confusion and clarity?
I abide in the glory of Self.

19.5

Where is sleeping, dreaming, waking,
or even the fourth state?
Where is fear?
I abide in the glory of Self.

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Ashtavakra Gita : Peace

Ashtavakra Said:

18.91

He who is without desire excels,
be he beggar or king.
He no longer sees good or bad.

18.92

What is lust or restraint,
or the desire for Truth
to the yogi who has reached life’s goal,
and who embodies virtue and sincerity?

18.93

The inner experience of one
who is free of desire and suffering,
who is content and reposes in Self--
how can it be described,
and of whom?

18.94

The wise one’s state never varies.
Sleeping soundly, he is not asleep.
Lying in reverie, he is not dreaming.
Eyes open, he is not wakeful.

18.95

The man of Knowledge seems to think,
but has no thoughts.
He seems to have sense perceptions,
but does not experience.
He seems to have intelligence,
but is empty-minded.
He appears to be a person,
but is not.

18.96

The man of Knowledge
is neither happy nor miserable,
neither detached nor attached,
neither liberated nor seeking liberation.
He is neither this nor that.

18.97

Even while distracted the blessed one is still.
In meditation, he does not meditate.
In ignorance, he remains clear.
Though learned, he knows nothing.

18.98

The liberated one,
who abides unconditionally in Self,
who is free of the concept of action and duty,
who is always and everywhere the same,
is desireless.
He does not worry
about what he did or did not do.

18.99

The wise one is neither pleased by praise,
nor annoyed by blame.
He neither rejoices in life
nor fears death.

18.100

One of tranquil mind
seeks neither crowds nor wilderness.
He is the same wherever he goes.

Ashtavakra Gita : Peace

Ashtavakra Said:

18.81

The sage neither yearns for fulfillment
nor frets over non-attainment.
His mind is cool
and brimming with sweetness.

18.82

Detached from desire,
the sage neither praises peace
nor blames the wicked.
Equally content
in happiness and misery,
he would not change a thing.

18.83

The sage neither rejects the world
nor desires Self.
He is free of joy and sorrow.
He does not live
and cannot die.

18.84

The wise one lives without hope.
He has no attachment to his children, wife or anyone.
Pleasure means nothing to him.
His life is glorious.

18.85

The sage wanders about as he pleases
and lives on whatever may come.
Contentment ever dwells in his heart.
And when the sun sets,
he rests where he is.

18.86

Rooted in Being,
no thought of being born or reborn,
the great soul is indifferent
to the death or birth of his body.

18.87

The wise one stands alone,
caring for nothing,
bereft of possessions.
He goes where he will,
unhindered by opposites,
his doubts rent asunder.
He is truly blessed.

18.88

The wise one has no sense of “mine.”
To him earth, stone and gold are the same.
The knots of his heart have unraveled.
He knows neither ignorance nor sorrow.
He is excellent in every way.

18.89

The liberated soul
has no desire in his heart.
He is content and indifferent.
He has no equal.

18.90

Only one free of desire
knows nothing of knowing,
says nothing needs saying,
sees nothing to see.

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Ashtravakra Gita : Peace

Ashtavakra Said:

18.71

Rules of conduct, detachment,
renunciation, asceticism—
what are these to one
who sees the unreality of things,
who is the Light of Awareness?

18.72

How can there be joy or sorrow,
bondage or liberation,
for one who perceives non-existence
and lights the infinite?

18.73

Until Self-realization,
illusion prevails.
The sage lives without
thoughts of “I” or “mine.”
His connection to illusion is severed.

18.74

What is knowledge?
What is the universe?
What are thoughts like
“I am the body,” or “the body is mine”?
The sage is imperishable and sorrowless.
He is Self alone.

18.75

When a weak man gives up meditation
he falls prey to whims and desires.

18.76

Even hearing Truth,
the man of dull intellect
holds on to illusion.
Through effort and suppression
he may appear outwardly composed,
but inside he craves the world.

18.77

Though others may see him working,
the sage does nothing.
Knowledge has banished effort.
He finds no reason to do or say.

18.78

The sage is fearless, unassailable.
No darkness, no light, nothing to lose.
Nothing.

18.79

Patience, discrimination,
even fearlessness—
What use are these to the yogi?
His nature cannot be described.
He is not a person.

18.80

No heaven, no hell,
no liberation for the living.
In short, Consciousness is Void.
What more can be said?

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Ashtavakra Gita : Peace

Ashtavakra Said:

18.61

For the deluded one,
even rest is an activity.
For the wise,
even action bears the fruit of stillness.

18.62

The deluded one is often adverse
to the things of his life.
To one with no thought for body,
attachment and aversion have no meaning.

18.63

The deluded mind is caught up
in thinking and not thinking.
Though the mind of the wise one
may think what thoughts come,
he is not aware of it.

18.64

The sage sees nothing being done
even when performed by his hands.
Like a child he is pure
and acts without reason.

18.65

Blessed indeed is he who knows Self.
Though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating,
he never desires nor changes.

18.66

For one who is void and changeless,
where is the world and its imaginings?
Where is the end?
Where is the possibility of it?

18.67

Glorious indeed is he who,
free of desire,
embodies Bliss itself.
He has become absorbed in Self.

18.68

In short, the great soul
who has realized Truth
is free of desire, enjoyment and liberation.
In all of space and time
he is attached to nothing.

18.69

What remains for One
who is Consciousness itself,
who sees the non-existence
of a phenomenal world created
by the mere thought of a name?

18.70

Peace is natural for one
who knows for certain nothing exists,
who sees appearances are illusion,
to whom the inexpressible is apparent.

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Ashtavakra Gita : Peace

Ashtavakra said:

18.51

When one realizes
he is neither the actor
nor the one who watches,
the mind-storm is stilled.

18.52

The actions of the sage,
free of pretence and motive,
shine like clear light.
Not so those of the deluded seeker
who affects a peaceful demeanor
while remaining firmly attached.

18.53

Unbounded, unfettered,
untethered from the projections of mind,
the wise are free to play and enjoy,
or retire to mountain caves.

18.54

Whether honoring a spiritual scholar,
a god, or holy shrine;
whether seeing a desirable woman,
a king, or beloved friend--
the heart of the sage
is unmoved.

18.55

Though his servants, sons,
wives, daughters, grandchildren
and all his relatives
ridicule and despise him,
the yogi is undismayed

18.56

Though pleased he is not pleasured;
though pained he does not suffer.
This wonderful state is understood
only by those like him.

18.57

The belief in duty
creates a relative world
for its performance.
The wise one knows Himself
to be formless, timeless,
all-pervasive, immaculate,
and thus transcends duty and world.

18.58

Even doing nothing
the dull one is anxious and distracted.
Even amidst great action
the wise one remains still.

18.59

Even in practical life
the wise one remains happy.
Happy to sit,
happy to sleep,
happy to move about,
happy to speak,
happy to eat…

18.60

Because he knows Self
the wise one is not disrupted by practical life.
He is deep and still, like a vast lake.
He is not like ordinary people.
His sorrows have vanished.

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Ashtavakra Gita : Peace

 Ashtavakra Gita: Peace

Ashtavakra Said:

18.41

The fool tries to control the mind
with the mind—what folly!
The wise one delights in Self alone.
There is no mind to master.

18.42

Some believe in existence;
others believe nothing exists.
Rare is the one who believes nothing
and is never confused.

18.43

Weak intellectuals may believe
the Self is One without other.
But being mired in illusion
they do not actually know Self,
so live out their lives in misery.

18.44

The mind of one seeking liberation
depends on things for perception.
The mind of the liberated one
perceives no-thing
and is free of desire.

18.45

Timid men fear sensory experience
much as they do tigers.
They seek refuge in caves
and try to un-think the world.

18.46

Sensory experiences are like elephants who,
upon encountering a desireless man,
see him as a lion.
They immediately turn on their heels,
or if unable to escape,
stay on to flatter and serve him.

18.47

A man with no doubts,
who knows only Self,
has no need of practice
or liberation.
Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating—
he lives as he is, happily.

18.48

One whose mind is emptied and unconflicted
by the mere hearing of Truth
sees nothing to do,
nothing to avoid,
nothing to warrant his indifference.

18.49

The sage does whatever
appears to be done
without thinking of good or bad.
His actions are those of a child.

18.50

Depending on nothing,
one finds happiness.
Depending on nothing,
one attains the Supreme.
Depending on nothing,
one passes through tranquility
to One Self.

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Ashtavakra Gita: Peace

18.31

The liberated one
does not exert effort
to meditate or act.
Action and meditation just happen.

18.32

Hearing ultimate Truth,
the dull-witted man is bewildered.
The wise man hearing Truth
retreats within and appears
dull-witted.

18.33

The ignorant practice
meditation and no-thought.
The wise,
like men in deep sleep,
do nothing.

18.34

The ignorant man finds no peace
either by effort or non-effort.
The wise man
by Truth alone is stilled.

18.35

Though they are by nature Self alone,
pure intelligence, love and perfection;
though they transcend the universe
and are clearness itself,
men of the world will not see this
through meditation and practices.

18.36

The ignorant man
will never be liberated
by his repetitious practices.
Blessed is he who
by simple understanding
enters timeless freedom.

18.37

Because he desires to know God,
the ignorant man can never become That.
The wise man is God
because he is free of desire
and knows nothing.

18.38

Unable to stand steady
and eager for salvation,
the ignorant perpetuate
the illusion of world.
Seeing the world
as the source of all misery,
the wise cut it off at the root.

18.39

The fool thinks peace comes
by controlling the mind.
He will never attain it.
The wise one knows Truth,
and is stillness itself.

18.40

For he who thinks knowledge
is things and ideas
how can there be Self-knowledge?
The wise do not see separate things--
only the timeless Self.

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Ashtavakra Gita: Peace

Ashtavakra said:

18.26

The liberated one
acts without claiming to be acting,
but he is no fool.
He is blessed and happy
even though in the world.

18.27

Having had enough
of the endless workings of the mind,
the wise one comes to rest.
He neither thinks, nor knows,
nor hears, nor sees.

18.28

Beyond stillness,
beyond distraction,
the great soul thinks nothing
of liberation or bondage.
Having seen the universe is void--
even though it seems to exist--
he is God.

18.29

He who believes he is a person
is constantly acting,
even when the body is at rest.
The sage knows he is not a person,
and therefore does nothing,
even when the body is in motion.

18.30

The mind of the liberated one
is neither troubled nor pleased.
It is actionless, motionless, desireles

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Ashtavakra Gita : Peace

Ashtavakra Gita : Peace

Ashtavakra Said:

18.21

Like a leaf in the wind
the liberated one
is untethered from life--
desireless, independent, free.

18.22

For one who has transcended the world
there is no joy or sorrow.
With a stilled mind,
he lives on with no body.

18.23

One who knows Self,
whose mind is serene and spotless,
does not desire to give up anything,
nor does he miss what is not there.

18.24

His mind being in a natural state
of emptiness,
the wise one knows nothing
of honor and dishonor.
He does what comes to be done.

18.25

One who acts knowing
“This is done by the body, not by I, pure Self,”
indeed does nothing--
no matter how much acting takes place.

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Ashtavakra Gita: Peace

Ashtavakra Gita: Peace

Ashtavakra said:


18.11

Heaven or poverty,
gain or loss,
society or solitude,
to the yogi free of conditioning
there is no difference.

18.12

Religious merit,
sensory pleasure,
worldly prosperity,
discrimination between this and that—
these have no significance
to the yogi free of opposites
such as “I do this”
and “this I do not.”

18.13

The yogi who is liberated while living
has no duties in this world,
no attachments in his heart.
His life proceeds without him.

18.14

For the great soul
who abides beyond desire,
where is illusion?
Where is the universe?
Where is meditation on That?
Where even is liberation from them?

18.15

He who sees the world
may try to renounce it.
But what can the desireless one do?

He sees there is nothing to see.

18.16

He who has seen the Supreme Brahma
thinks, “I am Brahma.”
But he who has transcended all thought,
what can he think?
He knows no other than Self.

18.17

He achieves self-control
who sees his own distraction.
But the great soul is not distracted.
He has nothing to achieve.
He has nothing to do.

18.18

The man of Knowledge
may live as an ordinary man,
but he is not.
He sees he is neither
focused nor distracted,

and finds no fault with himself.

18.19

He who is beyond existence and non-existence--
who is wise, satisfied, free of desire--
does nothing,
though the world may see him in motion.

18.20

The wise one
is not troubled by action or inactivity.
He lives happily,

doing whatever gets done.


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Ashtavakra Gita: Peace

Ashtavakra Gita: Peace

Ashtavakra said:

18.1

Praise That,
which is Bliss itself,
which is by nature stillness and light,
and which by Its knowing
reveals the world as a dream.


18.2

One may enjoy the abundant pleasures of the world,
but will never be happy
until giving them up.


18.3

How can one whose innermost heart
has been scorched by the sun of sorrow
that comes from duty
be happy until the sweet rain
of torrential stillness?

18.4

The universe is but a thought
in Consciousness.
In Reality it is nothing.
One who sees the true nature
of existence and non-existence
never ceases to exist.

18.5

The Self--which is
absolute, effortless, timeless, immaculate--
is without limits
and at no distance from you.
You are forever It.

18.6

For those whose vision becomes unclouded,
illusion evaporates
and the Self becomes known.
All sorrow is instantly dispelled.

18.7

Seeing everything is imagination,
knowing the Self as timelessly free,
the sage lives as a child.

18.8

Knowing himself as Absolute,
knowing existence and non-existence
to be imagination only,
what is there for the desireless one
to learn, say or do?

18.9

Knowing for certain that all is Self,
the sage has no trace of thoughts
such as “I am this” or “I am not that.”

18.10

The yogi who finds stillness
is neither distracted nor focused.
He knows neither pleasure nor pain.
Ignorance dispelled,
he is free of knowing.


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Ashtavakra Gita...The True Knower

Ashtavakra said:

17.18

The sage is not conflicted by
states of stillness and thought.
His mind is empty.
His home is absolute.

17.19

Though he may perform actions,
the man of Knowledge 
does not act.
Desires extinguished, 
free of thoughts of "I" and "mine,"
he knows with absolute certainty  that nothing exists.

17.20

The sage is free.
His empty mind no longer projects delusion, dreaming, dullness.
This state is indescribable.

Ashtavakra Gita...The True Knower

Ashtavakra said:

17.15

The sage sees no difference   
between happiness and misery,  
man and woman,  
adversity and success.
Everything is seen to be the same.

17.16 

In the sage there is neither
violence nor mercy,
arrogance nor humility,
anxiety nor wonder.
His worldly life is exhausted.
He has transcended his role as a person.

17.17 

The liberated one neither
avoids experience nor craves it.
He enjoys what comes and
what does not.

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Ashtavakra Gita: The True Knower

ASHTAVAKRA  GITA

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17.12

Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling,

eating, taking, speaking, walking,

the great soul

exerts neither effort nor non-effort.

He is truly free.

17.13

The liberated soul

does not blame or praise,

give or take,

rejoice or become angry.

He is everywhere unattached

and free.

17.14

The great soul

remains poised and undisturbed,

whether in the presence

of a passionate woman

or observing the approach of his death.

He is truly free.

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Ashtavakra Gita...the true knower

Ashtavakra Gita: The true knower

Ashtavakra said:

17.9 

There is no attachment or non-attachment
For one in whom the ocean of the world has dried up.
His look is vacant,
senses still.
His actions have no purpose.

17.10

The sage is neither asleep  nor awake.
He neither closes nor opens his eyes. Thus, for the liberated soul,
everywhere there is only This.

17.11

The liberated soul
abides in self alone and is pure of heart.
He lives always and everywhere,
free of desire.

Ashtavakra Gita...the true knower

Ashtavakra Gita

The true knower

17.7 

The man of knowledge   
neither cares for the universe  nor desires its dissolution.
He lives happily on whatever comes his way.
He is blessed.

17.8

Knowing Self,
mind empty and at peace,
the sage lives happily,
seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating.

Ashtavakra Gita..the true knower

Ashtavakra said:

17.4  

Rare in the world   
is one who does not relish past enjoyments, 
nor yearn for enjoyments to come. 

17.5 

Those who desire pleasure and those who desire liberation  are both common in the world.
Rare is the great soul
who desires neither enjoyment nor liberation.

17.6

Rare is right minded person
who neither covets nor shuns
religion, wealth, pleasure, life or death.

Astavakra Gita: The True Knower

ASHTAVAKRA  GITA

The True Knower

17.1

One has attained Knowledge

and reaped the fruits of yoga

who is content,

purified of attachments

and at home in solitude.

17.2

The knower of Truth

is never miserable in the world,

for the whole universe

is filled with Himself alone.

17.3

As the foliage of the neem tree

does not please an elephant

who delights in sallaki leaves,

so do sense objects not please

he who delights in Self.

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Ashtavakra Gita...Special instructions

ASHTAVAKRA  GITA

Special instructions

Ashtavakra said:

16.10

He who claims liberation as his own,  
as an attainment of a person,  
is neither enlightened nor a seeker,   
He suffers his own misery.

 16.11

Though Hara, Hari
or the lotus-born Brahma himself     
instruct you,    
until you know nothing    
you will never know Self.

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Astavakra Gita.... Special instruction

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Ashtavakra said:

16.7

As long as there is desire--
which is the absence of discrimination--
there will be attachment and non-attachment.
This is the cause of the world.

16.8

Indulgence creates attachment.
Aversion creates abstinence.
Like a child, the sage is free of both
and thus lives on as a child.

16.9

One who is attached to the world
thinks renouncing it will relieve his misery.
One who is attached to nothing is free
and does not feel miserable
even in the world.

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Astavakra Gita.... Special instruction

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Ashtavakra said:

16.4

The master idler,
to whom even blinking is a bother,
is happy.
But he is the only one.

16.5

When the mind is free of opposites
like “This is done,” and “This is yet undone,”
one becomes indifferent to
merit, wealth, pleasure and liberation.

16.6

One who abhors sense objects avoids them.
One who desires them becomes ensnared.
One who neither abhors nor desires
is neither detached nor attached.

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Astavakra Gita.... Special instruction

Astavakra Gita.... Special instruction

Ashtavakra said:

16.1

You can recite and discuss scripture

all you want,

but until you drop everything

you will never know Truth.

16.2

You can enjoy and work and meditate,

but you will still yearn for That

which is beyond all experience,

and in which all desires are extinguished.

16.3

Everyone is miserable
because they exert constant effort.
But no one understands this.
A ripe mind can become unshackled

upon hearing this one instruction.

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