"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

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,
  • He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality.
  • There is neither joy nor sorrow for one who has transcended samsara. With a peaceful mind he lives as if without a body.
  • He whose joy is in himself, and who is peaceful and pure within has no desire for renunciation or sense of loss in anything.
  • For the man with a naturally empty mind, doing just as he pleases, there is no such thing as pride or false humility, as there is for the natural man.
  • "This action was done by the body but not by me." The pure natured person thinking like this, is not acting even when acting.
  • He who acts without being able to say why, but is not thereby a fool, he is one liberated while still alive, happy and blessed. He is happy even in samsara.
  • He who has had enough of endless considerations and has attained to peace, does not think, know, hear or see.


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