by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: I am infinite like space, and the natural world is like a jar. To know this is knowledge, and then there is neither renunciation, acceptance, or cessation of it. 6.1 I am like the ocean, and the multiplicity of objects is comparable to a wave....
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: You are not bound by anything. What does a pure person like you need to renounce? Putting the complex organism to rest, you can find peace. 5.1 All this arises out of you, like a bubble out of the sea. Knowing yourself like this to be but one,...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: The wise person of self-knowledge, playing the game of worldly enjoyment, bears no resemblance whatever to samsara’s bewildered beasts of burden. 4.1 Truly the yogi feels no excitement even at being established in that state which all the Devas...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra said: Knowing yourself as truly one and indestructible, how could a wise man possessing self-knowledge like you feel any pleasure in acquiring wealth? 3.1 Truly, when one does not know oneself, one takes pleasure in the objects of mistaken perception,...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Janaka said: Truly I am spotless and at peace, the awareness beyond natural causality. All this time I have been afflicted by delusion. 2.1 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...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Ashtavakra Gita
Janaka said: How is one to acquire knowledge? How is one to attain liberation? And how is one to reach dispassion? Tell me this, sir. 1.1 Ashtavakra said: If you are seeking liberation, my son, avoid the objects of the senses like poison...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Scientific Christian Mental Practice
To the Romans, Paul wrote the twelfth lesson of the Science of Christ: “Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” Jesus Christ said at the Last Supper: “Henceforth I call you not servants but I have called you friends;...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Scientific Christian Mental Practice
Confucius, the Chinese sage, who lived 550 B.C., said, “A man filled with truth hath power over heaven and earth, gods and devils. Nothing in the universe can injure him. Water and fire cannot cause him to fear.” Nothing can harm one who actually believes himself...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Scientific Christian Mental Practice
All seeds have their seed within themselves, the Scriptures tell us. Their seed is their ego, their vitality, their meaning. If you are treating a case you may discover that you can see with another set of eyes than the ones you ordinarily use. You might be half awake...
by atis | Feb 2, 2023 | Scientific Christian Mental Practice
It has always lain heavily on the mind of the race that holiness and health, sin and disease, bear a logical relation to each other. “I have been young and now I am old, yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread,” shows that not only...
