"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

Friday, August 31, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra

  • Unmoved and undistressed, realizing that being, non-being and change are of the very nature of things, one easily finds peace.
  • At peace, having shed all desires within, and realizing that nothing exists here but the Lord, the Creator of all things, one is no longer attached to anything.
  • Realizing that misfortune and fortune come in their turn from fate, one is contented, one's senses under control, and does not like or dislike.
  • Realizing that pleasure and pain, birth and death are from fate, and that one's desires cannot be achieved, one remains inactive, and even when acting does not get attached.


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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