"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, September 18, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra

  • Realizing that suffering arises from nothing other than thinking, dropping all desires one rids oneself of it, and is happy and at peace everywhere.
  • Realizing, "I am not the body, nor is the body mine. I am awareness", one attains the supreme state and no longer things done or undone.
  • Realizing, "I alone exist, from Brahma down to the last clump of grass", one becomes free from uncertainty, pure, at peace and unconcerned about what has been attained or not.
  • Realizing that all this varied and wonderful world is nothing, one becomes pure receptivity, free from inclinations, and as if nothing existed, one finds peace.


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