Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,

• He who is content, with purified senses, and always enjoys solitude, has gained the fruit of knowledge and the fruit of the practice of yoga too.
• The knower of truth is never distressed in this world, for the whole world is full of himself alone.
• None of these senses please a man who has found satisfaction within, just as Nimba leaves do not please the elephant that like Sallaki leaves.
• The man who is not attached to the things he has enjoyed, and does not hanker after the things he has not enjoyed, such a man is hard to find.
• Those who desire pleasure and those who desire liberation are both found in samsara, but the great souled man who desires neither pleasure nor liberation is rare indeed.
• It is only the noble minded who is free from attraction or repulsion to religion, wealth, sensuality, and life and death too.
• He feels no desire for the elimination of all this, nor anger at its continuing, so the lucky man lives happily with whatever sustenance presents itself.
• Thus fulfilled through this knowledge, contented and with the thinking mind emptied, he lives happily just seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting.