Even though I am in the body, the body can not touch it. the ears cannot hear it, the eyes can not see it, the nose cannot smell it, the mouth cannot describe it, the mind cannot think about it. How wonderful I am! Glory to me. I Am, Indeed, That Pure Ether, Where The Everlasting Sound…

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Ashtavakra Gita – Chapter: 6 1.Janaka: I am infinite like space, and the natural world is like a jar. To know this is knowledge, and then there is neither renunciation, acceptance or cessation of it. 2.I am like the ocean, and the multiplicity of objects is comparable to a wave. To know this is knowledge, and…

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Ashtavakra Gita – Chapter: 5 1.Ashtavakra: You are not bound by anything. What does a pure person like you need to renounce? Putting the complex organism to rest, you can go to your rest. 2.All this arises out of you, like a bubble out of the sea. Knowing yourself like this to be but one, you…

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Ashtavakra Gita – Chapter: 4 1.Janaka: The wise person of self-knowledge, playing the game of worldly enjoyment, bears no resemblance whatever to samsara’s bewildered beasts of burden. 2.Truly the yogi feels no excitement even at being established in that state which all the Devas from Indra down yearn for disconsolately. 3.He who has known That is…

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Ashtavakra Gita – Chapter: 3 1.Ashtavakra: Knowing yourself as truly one and indestructible, how could a wise man possessing self-knowledge like you feel any pleasure in acquiring wealth. 2.Truly, when one does not know oneself, one takes pleasure in the objects of mistaken perception, just as greed arises for the mistaken silver in one who does…

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