Ashtavakra Gita - The Song Of Ashtavakra
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Ashtavakra said: If you are seeking liberation, my son, shun the objects of the senses like poison. Practise tolerance, sincerity, compassion, contentment and truthfulness like nectar.
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As I alone give light to this body, so I do to the world, As a result the whole world is mine, or alternatively nothing is.
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Truly, when one does not know oneself, one takes pleasure in the objects of mistaken perception, just as greed arises for the mistaken silver in one who does not know mother of pearl for what it is.
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Truly the yogi feels no excitement even at being established in that state which all the Devas from Indra down yearn for disconsolately.
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All this arises out of you, like a bubble out of the sea. Knowing yourself like this to be but one, you can go to your rest.
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I am like the ocean, and the multiplicity of objects is comparable to a wave. To know this is knowledge, and then there is neither renunciation, acceptance or cessation of it.
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Let the world wave rise or vanish of its own nature in the infinite ocean of myself. There is no increase or diminution to me from it.
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| Chapter 8 |
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Liberation is when the mind does not long for anything, grieve about anything, reject anything, or hold on to anything, and is not pleased about anything or displeased about anything.
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Rare indeed, my son, is the lucky man whose observation of the world's behaviour has led to the extinction of his thirst for living, thirst for pleasure and thirst for knowledge.
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Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife, and bequests as nothing but a dream or a three or five-day conjuror's show.
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At peace, having shed all desires within, and realizing that nothing exists here but the Lord, the Creator of all things, one is no longer attached to anything.
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In the absence of delight in sound and the other senses, and by the fact that I am myself not an object of the senses, my mind is focused and free from distraction -which is why I am now established.
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| Chapter 13 |
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Sometimes one experiences distress because of one's body, sometimes because of one's tongue, and sometimes because of one's mind.
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When my desire has been eliminated, I have no wealth, friends, robber senses, scriptures or knowledge ?
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| Chapter 15 |
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Liberation is distaste for the objects of the senses. Bondage is love of the senses. This is knowledge. Now do as you please.
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| Chapter 16 |
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You may, as a learned man, indulge in wealth, activity and meditation, but your mind will still long for that which is the cessation of desire, and beyond all goals.
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| Chapter 17 |
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The knower of truth is never distressed in this world, for the whole round world is full of himself alone.
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| Chapter 18 |
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One may get all sorts of pleasure by the acquisition of various objects of enjoyment, but one cannot be happy except by the renunciation of everything.
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For me, established in my own glory, there is no religion, sensuality, possessions, philosophy, duality or even non-duality.
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For me, free from the sense of dualism, there are no scriptures, no self-knowledge, no mind free from an object, no satisfaction and no freedom from desire.
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