"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 17, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

Sage Ashtavakra said,

  • There are no rules, dispassion, renunciation or meditation for one who is pure receptivity by nature, and admits no knowable form of being. 
  • For him who shines with the radiance of Infinity and is not subject to natural casusality there is neither bondage, liberation, pleasure nor pain.
  • Pure illusion reigns in samsara which will continue until self realization, but the enlightened man lives in the beauty of freedom from me and mine, from the sense of responsibility and from any attachment.
  • For the seer who knows himself as imperishable and beyond there is neither knowledge, a world nor the sense that I am the body or the body mine.
  • No sooner does a man of low intelligence give up activities like elimination of thought than he falls into mind racing and chatter.
  • A fool does not get rid of his stupidity even on hearing the truth. He may appear outwardly free from imaginations, but inside he is hankering after the senses still.

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