by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: My son, you may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything. 16.1 You may, as a learned man, indulge in wealth, activity, and meditation, but your mind will still long for that which...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: While a man of pure intelligence may achieve the goal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered. 15.1 Liberation is distaste for the objects of the senses. Bondage is love of the...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Janaka said: He who by nature is empty-minded, and who thinks of things only unintentionally, is freed from deliberate remembering like one awakened from a dream. 14.1 When my desire has been eliminated, I have no wealth, friends, robbers, senses, scriptures or...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Janaka said: The inner freedom of having nothing is hard to achieve, even with just a loincloth, but I live as I please, abandoning both renunciation and acquisition. 13.1 Sometimes one experiences distress because of one’s body, sometimes because of...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Janaka said: First of all I was averse to physical activity, then to lengthy speech, and finally to thought itself, which is why I am now established. 12.1 In the absence of delight in sound and the other senses, and by the fact that I am...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: Unmoved and undistressed, realising that being, non-being and change are of the very nature of things, one easily finds peace. 11.1 At peace, having shed all desires within, and realising that nothing exists here but the Lord, the Creator of...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: Abandon desire, the enemy, along with gain, itself so full of loss, and the good deeds which are the cause of the other two — practice indifference to everything. 10.1 Look on such things as land, friends, money, property, wife, and...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: Knowing when the dualism of things done and undone has been put to rest, or the person for whom they occur has, then you can here and now go beyond renunciation and obligations by indifference to such things. 9.1 Rare indeed, my son, is the...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something. 8.1 Liberation is when the mind does not long for anything, grieve about...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Janaka said: In the infinite ocean of myself the world boat drifts here and there, moved by its own inner wind. I am not put out by that. 7.1 Whether the world wave of its own nature rises or disappears in the infinite ocean of myself, I neither gain nor...
