"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

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,

  • For the seer who behaves like a child, without desire in all actions, there is no attachment for such a pure on even in the work he does. 
  • Blessed is he who knows himself and is the same in all states, with a mind free from craving whether he is seeing, hearing, smelling or tasting. 
  • There is no man subject to samsara, sense of individuality, goal or means to a goal for the wise man who is always free from imaginations, and unchanging as space?
  • Glorious is he who has abandoned all goals and is the incarnation of satisfaction, his very nature, and whose inner focus on the Unconditioned is quite spontaneous.
  • In brief, the great-souled man who has come to know the Truth is without desire for either pleasure or liberation, and is always and everywhere free from attachment.
  • What remains to be done by the man who is pure awareness and has abandoned everything that can be expressed in words from the highest heaven to the earth itself?
  • The pure man who has experienced the indescribable attains peace by his own nature, realizing that all this is nothing but illusion, and that nothing is.

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