"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, January 6, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita,

Sage Ashtavakra said,
  • Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.
  • Recognizing oneself in all beings, and all beings in oneself, be happy, free from the sense of responsibility and free from preoccupation with me.
  • Your nature is the consciousness, in which the whole world wells up, like waves in the sea. That is what you are, without any doubt, so be free of disturbance.
  • Have faith, my son, have faith. Don't let yourself be deluded in this, Sir. You are yourself the Lord, whose very nature is knowledge, and are beyond natural causation.
  • The body invested with the senses stands still, and comes and goes. You yourself neither come nor go, so why bother about them?
  • Let the body last to the end of the Age, or let it come to an end right now. What have you gained or lost, who consist of pure consciousness?
  • Let the world wave rise or subside according to its own nature in you, the great ocean. It is no gain or loss to you.

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I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad