ASHTAVAKRA GITA : THE SONG OF ASHTAVAKRA 

16.1 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.

16.2 It is because of effort that everyone is in pain, but no-one realizes it. By just this simple instruction, the lucky one attains tranquility.

16.3 Happiness belongs to no-one but that supremely lazy man for whom even opening and closing his eyes is a bother.

16.4 When the mind is freed from such pairs of opposites as, I have done this, and I have not done that, it becomes indifferent to merit, wealth, sensuality and liberation.

16.5 One man is abstemious and averse to the senses, another is greedy and attached to them, but he who is free from both taking and rejecting is neither abstemious nor greedy.

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