XIX Janaka said: 1. Using the tweezers of the knowledge of the truth I have managed to extract the painful thorn of endless opinions from the recesses of my heart. 2. For me, established in... Read more
51. When one sees oneself as neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, then all mind waves come to an end. 52. The spontaneous unassumed behaviour of the wise is noteworthy, but n... Read more
XVIII Ashtavakra said: 1. Praise be to that by the awareness of which delusion itself becomes dream-like, to that which is pure happiness, peace and light. 2. One may get all sorts of pleasu... Read more
XVI Ashtavakra said: 1. My dearest, you may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything. 2. You may, as a learned man, in... Read more
XIV Janaka said: 1. He who by nature is empty-minded, and who thinks of things only unintentionally, is freed from deliberate remembering, like one awakened from a dream. 2. As my desire has... Read more
XI Ashtavakra said: 1. Unmoved and undistressed, realising now that being, non-being and transformation are of the very nature of things, one easily finds peace. 2. At peace, having shed all... Read more
VIII Ashtavakra said: 1. Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased aboutsometh... Read more
IV Ashtavakra said: 1. Certainly the wise person of self-knowledge, playing the game of worldly life, bears no resemblance whatever to the world’s bewildered beasts of burden. 2. Truly the o... Read more
III Ashtavakra said: 1. Knowing yourself as truly one and indestructible, how could a wise man like you- one possessing self-knowledge- feel any pleasure in acquiring wealth? 2. Truly, when... Read more
II. Janaka said: 1. Truly I am spotless and at peace, the awareness beyond natural causality. All this time I have been afflicted by delusion. 2. As I alone give light to this body, so do I... Read more