"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, March 29, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,

  • The liberated man is not averse to the senses and nor is he attached to them. He enjoys himself continually with an unattached mind in both achievement and non-achievement. 
  • One established in the Absolute state with an empty mind does not know the alternatives of inner stillness and lack of inner stillness, and of good and evil.
  • Free of "me" and "mine" and of a sense of responsibility, aware that "nothing exists", with all desires extinguished within, a man does not act even in acting.
  • He whose thinking mind is dissolved achieves the indestructible state and is free from the mental display of delusion, dream and ignorance.

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