"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, February 10, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,
  • Being pure consciousness, do not disturb your mind with thoughts of for and against. Be at peace and remain happily in yourself, the essence of joy.
  • Give up meditation completely but don't let the mind hold on to anything. You are free by nature, so what will you achieve by forcing the mind?
  • My son, you may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be establishes within until you can forget everything.
  • You may, as a learned man, indulge in wealth, activity and meditation, but your mind will still long for that which is the cessation of desire, and beyond all goals.
  • Everyone is in pain because of their own effort, but none realizes it. By just this very instruction, the lucky one attains tranquility.
  • Happiness belongs to none but that supremely lazy man for whom even opening and closing his eyes is a bother.

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