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
Translation by John Richards Introduction by Bon Introduction: Once upon a time there was a student of the scriptures who could not support his family. He would work hard all day every day a... Read more
86. A king is declared to be equal (in wickedness) to a butcher who keeps a hundred thousand slaughter-houses; to accept presents from him is a terrible (crime). 87. He who accepts presents... Read more
