"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

Monday, July 30, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita


Sage Ashtavakra said:
  • Who does not end up with indifference to such things and attain peace when he has seen the differences of opinions among the great sages, saints and yogis?
  • Is he not a guru who, endowed with dispassion and equanimity, achieves full knowledge of the nature of consciousness, and leads out of samsara?
  • If you would just see the transformations of the elements as nothing more than the elements, then you would immediately be freed from all bonds and established in your own nature.
  • One's inclinations are samsara. Knowing this, abandon them. The renunciation of them is the renunciation of it. Now you can remain as you are.

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