"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, May 6, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita



King Janaka (who was listening to the Sage's words) said:
  • All this, which has originated out of me, is resolved back into me too, like a jug bank into clay, a wave into water, and a bracelet into gold.
  • How wonderful I am! Glory to me, for whom there is no destruction, remaining even beyond the destruction of the world from Brahma down to the last clump of grass.
  • How wonderful I am! Glory to me! There is no one so clever as me! I who have borne all that is forever, without even touching it with my body!
  • How wonderful I am! Glory to me! I who possess nothing at all, or alternatively possess everything that speech and mind can refer to.
  • Knowledge, what is to be known, and the knower - these three do not exist in reality. I am the spotless reality in which they appear because of ignorance.

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
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