"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

Monday, May 27, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,
  • Even when living without any support and eager for achievement, the stupid are still nourishing samsara, while the wise have cut at the very root of its unhappiness.
  • The stupid does not find peace because he is wanting it, while the wise discriminating the truth is always peaceful minded.
  • How can there be self knowledge for him whose knowledge depends on what he sees. The wise do not see this and that, but see themselves as unending.
  • How can there be cessation of thought for the misguided one who is striving for it? Yet it is always there naturally for the wise man delighted in himself.
  • Some think that something exists, and others that nothing does. Rare is the man who does not think either, and is thereby free from distinction.

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