"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, August 5, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita



Sage Ashtavakra said:

  • Abandoning desire, the enemy, along with gain, itself so full of loss, and the good deeds which are the cause of the other two - practice indifference to everything.
  • Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife and bequests as nothing but a dream or a magician's show lasting three or five days.
  • Wherever a desire occurs, see samsAra in it. Establishing yourself in firm dispassion, be free of passion and happy.
  • The essential nature of bondage is nothing other than desire, and its elimination is known as liberation. It is simply by not being attached to changing things that the everlasting joy of attainment is reached.

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