"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, January 11, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,
  • My son, you consist of pure consciousness, and the world is not separate from you. So who is to accept or reject it, and how, and why?
  • How can there be either birth, karma or responsibility in that one unchanging, peaceful, unblemished and infinite consciousness which is you?
  • Whatever you see, it is you alone manifest in it. How could bracelets, armlets and anklets be different from gold they are made of?
  • Giving up such distinctions as "He is what I am", and "I am not that", recognize that "Everything is myself", and be without distinction and happy.
  • It is through your ignorance that all this exists. In reality you alone exist. Apart from you there is none within or beyond samsara.
  • Knowing that all this is an illusion, one becomes free of desire, pure receptivity and at peace, as if nothing existed.
  • Only one thing has existed, exists and will exist in the ocean of being. You have no bondage or liberation. Live happily and fulfilled.

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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