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    Annotated Ashtavakra Gita
    Annotated Ashtavakra Gita
    Annotated Ashtavakra Gita
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    Annotated Ashtavakra Gita

    By Andras M Nagy

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    There is little doubt though that it is very old, probably dating back to the days of the classic Vedanta period. The Sanskrit style and the doctrine expressed would seem to warrant this assessment.The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by Ramana Maharshi, while Radhakrishnan always ref

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMurine Publications LLC
    Release dateOct 21, 2022
    ISBN9781957990262
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      Annotated Ashtavakra Gita - Andras M Nagy

      I

      Vision of the Self as the All-pervading Witness

      Janaka:

      1 How is knowledge to be acquired? How is liberation to be attained? And how is dispassion to be reached? Tell me this, sir.

      Ashtavakra:

      2 If you are seeking liberation, my son, shun the objects of the senses like poison. Practise tolerance, sincerity, compassion, contentment and truthfulness like nectar.

      3 You are neither earth, water, fire, air or even ether. For liberation know yourself as consisting of consciousness, the witness of these.

      4 If only you will remain resting in consciousness, seeing yourself as distinct from the body, then even now you will become happy, peaceful and free from bonds.

      5 You do not belong to the Brahmin or any other caste, you are not at any stage, nor are you anything that the eye can see. You are unattached and formless, the witness of everything - so be happy.

      6 Righteousness and unrighteousness, pleasure and pain are purely of the mind and are no concern of yours. You are neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, so you are always free.

      7 You are the one witness of everything, and are always totally free. The cause of your bondage is that you see the witness as something other than this.

      8 Since you have been bitten by the black snake of the self- opinion that ‘I am the doer’, drink the nectar of faith in the fact that ‘I am not the doer’, and be happy.

      9 Burn down the forest of ignorance with the fire of the understanding that ‘I am the one pure awareness’, and be happy and free from distress.

      10 That in which all this appears - imagined like the snake in a rope, that joy, supreme joy and awareness is what you are, so be happy.

      11 If one thinks of oneself as free, one is free, and if one thinks of oneself as bound, one is bound. Here this saying is true, Thinking makes it so.

      12 Your real nature is as the one perfect, free, and actionless consciousness, the all-pervading witness - unattached to anything, desireless and at peace. It is from illusion that you seem to be involved in Samsara.

      13 Meditate on yourself as motionless awareness, free from any dualism, giving up the mistaken idea that you are just a derivative consciousness, or anything external or internal.

      14 You have long been trapped in the snare of identification with the body. Sever it with the knife of knowledge that ‘I am awareness’, and be happy, my son.

      15 You are really unbound and actionless, self-illuminating and spotless already. The cause of your bondage is that you are still resorting to stilling the mind.

      16 All of this is really filled by you and strung out in you, for what you consist of is pure awareness - so don’t be small minded.

      17 You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness and unperturbable, so hold to nothing but consciousness.

      18 Recognise that the apparent is unreal, while the unmanifest is abiding. Through this initiation into truth you will escape falling into unreality again.

      19 Just as a mirror exists everywhere both within and apart from its reflected images, so the

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