"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

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ashtavakra Gita

King Janaka said,

  • In my unblemished nature there are no elements, no body, no faculties, no mind. There is no void and no despair.
  • For me, free from the sense of dualism, there are no scriptures, no self-knowledge, no mind free from an object, no satisfaction and no freedom from desire.
  • There is no knowledge or ignorance, no "me", "this", no bondage, no liberation, and no property of self-nature.
  • For him who is always free from individual characteristics there is no antecedent causal action, no liberation during life and no fulfilment at death.
  • For me, free from individuality, there is no doer and no reaper of the consequence, no cessation of action, no arising of thought, no immediate object, and no idea of results.
  • There is no world, no seeker for liberation, no yogi, no seer, no one bound and no one liberated. I remain in my own non-dual nature.

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad