"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita

Source: Ashtavakra Gita translated by John Richards
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Sage Ashtavakra
You are the one witness of everything, and are always completely free. The cause of your bondage is that you see the witness as something other than this.

Since you have been bitten by the black snake, the opinion about yourself that "I am the doer", drink the antidote of faith in the fact that "I am not the doer", and be happy.

Burn down the forest of ignorance with the fire of the understanding that "I am the one pure awareness", and be happy and free from distress.

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