Sage Ashtavakra said,
- Who but the upright man without desire knows without knowing, sees without seeing and speaks without speaking?
- Beggar or king, he excels who is without desire, and whose opinion of things is rid of "good" and "bad".
- There is neither dissolute behavior nor virtue, nor even discrimination of the truth for the sage who has reached the goal and is the very embodiment of guileless sincerity.
- That which is experienced within by one desireless and free from pain, and content to rest in himself - how could it be described, and of whom?
- The wise man who is contented in all circumstances is not asleep even in deep sleep, not sleeping in a dream, nor waking when he is awake.
- The seer is without thoughts even when thinking, without senses among the senses, without understanding even in understanding and without a sense of responsibility even in the ego.
- Neither happy nor unhappy, neither detached nor attached, neither seeking liberation nor liberated, he is neither something nor nothing.
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