Ashtavakra Gita Quotes and Sayings

• You are neither earth, water, fire, air or even ether.
  For liberation know yourself as
  consisting of consciousness, the witness of these.
   
• You are unconditioned
  and changeless, formless and immovable,
  unfathomable awareness and unperturbable,
  so hold to nothing but consciousness.
   
• 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.
   
• Truly I am but pure consciousness,
  and the world is like a conjuror's show,
  so how could I imagine there is anything there
  to take up or reject?
   
• Liberation is when the mind does not long for anything,
  grieve about anything, reject anything,
  or hold on to anything, and is not pleased about anything
  or displeased about anything.
   
• The essential nature of bondage is nothing other than desire,
  and its elimination is known as liberation.
  It is simply by not being attached to changing things that the
  everlasting joy of attainment is reached.
   
• Happiness belongs to no-one but that supremely lazy man
  for whom even opening and closing his eyes is a bother.
   
• Realising that pleasure and pain,
  birth and death are from fate,
  and that one's desires cannot be achieved,
  one remains inactive -
  and even when acting does not get attached.
   
• Being pure consciousness -
  do not disturb your mind with thoughts of for and against.
  Be at peace and remain happily in yourself, the essence of joy.
   
• Desire springs from usage, and aversion from abstention,
  but the wise man is free from the pairs of opposites like a child,
  and becomes established.

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