"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

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita


Sage 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.
  • Rare indeed, my son, is the lucky man whose observation of the world's behavior has led to the extinction of his thirst for living, thirst for pleasure and thirst for knowledge.
  • All this is impermanent and spoilt by the three sorts of pain. Recognizing it to be insubstantial, contemptible and only fit for rejection, one attains peace.
  • When was that age or time or the life when the dualism of extremes did not exist for men? Abandoning them, a person who is happy to take whatever comes attains perfection.

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