ASHTAVAKRA GITA : THE SONG OF ASHTAVAKRA 

12.1 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.

12.2 Owing to the distraction of such things as wrong identification, one is driven to strive for mental stillness. Recognising this pattern I am now established.

12.3 By relinquishing the sense of rejection and acceptance, and with pleasure and disappointment ceasing today, Brahmin, I am now established.

12.4 Life in a community, then going beyond such a state, meditation and the elimination of mind-made objects by means of these I have seen my error, and I am now established.

12.5 Just as the performance of actions is due to ignorance, so their abandonment is too. By fully recognising this truth, I am now established.

12.6 Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought. Abandoning such a practice therefore, I am now established.

12.7 He who has achieved this has achieved the goal of life. He who is of such a nature has done what has to be done.

12.8 Janaka said: The inner freedom of having nothing is hard to achieve, even with just a loin- cloth, but I live as I please abandoning both renunciation and acquisition.

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