"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

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita


King Janaka (who was listening to the Sage's words) said:
  • Truly I am spotless and at peace, the awareness beyond natural causality. All this time I have been afflicted by delusion.
  • 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 is.
  • So now that I have abandoned the body and everything else, by some good fortune or other my true self becomes apparent.
  • Just as waves, foam and bubbles are not different from water, so all this which has emanated from oneself, is no other than oneself.

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad