"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

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita,

Sage Ashtavakra said,
  • Knowing everything as just imagination, and himself as eternally free, how should the wise man behave like a fool?
  • Knowing himself to be God and being and non-being just imagination, what should the man free from desire learn, say or do?
  • Considerations like "I am this" or "I am not this" are finished for the yogi who has gone silent realizing "Everything is myself".
  • For the yogi who has found peace, there is no distraction or one-pointedness, no higher knowledge or ignorance, no pleasure and no pain.
  • The dominion of heaven or beggary, gain or loss, life among men or in the forest, these make no difference to a yogi whose nature it is to be free from distinctions.
  • There is no religion, wealth, sensuality or discrimination for a yogi free from such opposites as "I have done this," and "I have not done that".
  • There is nothing needing to be done, or any attachment in his heart for the yogi liberated while still alive. Things are just for life-time.

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