Showing posts with label Ashtavakra Gita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashtavakra Gita. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

"I do nothing."
This is the nectar of faith,
So drink and be happy!

Know you are one,
Pure awareness.

With the fire of this conviction,
Burn down the forest of ignorance.

Free yourself from sorrow,
And be happy.

Be happy!
For you are joy, unbounded joy.

You are awareness itself.

~ The Ashtavakra Gita (translation by Thomas Byrom)

Sunday, February 24, 2008

"I am not the body,
Nor is the body mine.
I am awareness itself"

When you know this,
You have no thought
For what you have done
Or left undone.

You become one,
Perfect and indivisible.

~ Ashtavakra Gita (translation by Thomas Byrom)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

You may read or discuss scripture
As much as you like.

But until you forget everything,
You will never live in your heart.

You are wise.
You play and work and meditate.

But still your mind desires
That which is beyond everything,
Where all desires vanish.

Striving is the root of sorrow.
But who understands this?

Only when you are blessed
With the understanding of this teaching
Will you find freedom.

~ Ashtavakra Gita (translation by Thomas Byrom)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Seek the nectar of truth,
Of love and forgiveness,
Simplicity and happiness.

Earth, fire and water,
The wind and the sky -
You are none of these.

If you wish to be free,
Know you are the Self,
The witness of all these,
The heart of awareness.

Set your body aside.
Sit in your own awareness.

You will at once be happy,
Forever still,
Forever free.

~ Ashtavakra Gita (translation by Thomas Byrom)

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Intelligence itself

You are not the body, nor is the body yours, nor are you the doer or the enjoyer. You are Intelligence itself, the eternal witness and you are free. Get along happily.

~ Ashtavakra Gita

Monday, May 28, 2007

neither hold onto anything nor reject anything

Ashtavakra said:

Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something. 8.1

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. 8.2

Bondage is when the mind is tangled in one of the senses, and liberation is when the mind is not tangled in any of the senses. 8.3

When there is no "me," that is liberation, and when there is "me" there is bondage. Consider this carefully, and neither hold on to anything nor reject anything. 8.4

~ Ashtavakra Gita (translation by John Richards)

to read the whole Ashtavakra Gita, see:
http://bhagavan-ramana.org/ashtavakragita.html