Ashtavakra Gita

Ashtavakra Gita is a dialogue between Ashtavakra and Janaka on the nature of Self/Atman, reality and bondage. It offers a revolutionary version of non-dualist philosophy. The Gita insists on the complete unreality of the external world and absolute oneness of existence.

Yathasukham

Sri Janak says:
The inherent quality of having nothing is hard to attain, even with just a loincloth.
Hence, I exist in pleasure at all times abandoning both the feelings of renunciation and acquisition.

Actually, there exist no pain due to body, no pain due to speech, no pain due to mind.
Abandoning all the efforts, I exist pleasantly in all situations.

No action is ever committed, in reality.
Understanding thus I exist pleasantly in all situations by just doing what is to be done.

Yogis, attached with their bodies think in terms of doing or avoiding certain actions.
This causes bondage.
But I exist pleasantly in all situations abandoning the feelings of attachment and detachment.

I, actually, concur no benefit or loss while taking rest, moving, sleeping, sitting, walking or dreaming.
Hence, I exist pleasantly in all situations..

I lose nothing by sleeping and gain nothing by action or inaction.
Hence, I exist pleasantly in all situations abandoning the feelings of joy and sorrow.

I understand by experience that pleasure and pain come and go again and again.
Hence, I exist pleasantly in all situations abandoning the feelings of auspicious(good) and inauspicious(bad).

Krishjan
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