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Ashtavakra: Encyclopedia - Ashtavakra

Ashtavakra or Ashtaavakra in sanskrit means "eight bends". In ancient india, sage Ashtavakra was known to be very intelligent and spiritually well advanced rishi who realized self or Atman. More information about his birth and life comes from indian epic Mahabharata. Sage Uddalaka ran a school (Ashram) teaching Vedic knowledge. Kahola was one of his best disciples. Uddalaka was so pleased with him that he got his daughter Sujata married to him. Sujata, eventually got pregnant and wanted her child to surpass all th ...

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Ashtavakra: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary V on Ashtavakra

Ashtavakra:

Ashtavakra - name of a deformed sage

Ashtavakra: You Think You Are the Body

Hindu Quotes: You Think You Are the Body

My Child,

Because you think you are the body,

For a long time you have been bound.

Know you are pure awareness.

With this knowledge as your sword

Cut through your chains

And be happy!

For you are already free,

Without action or flaw,

Luminous and bright.

You are bound

Only by the habit of meditation.

- Ashtavakra 14-15

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Ashtavakra: All that Exists is Total Awareness

Scriptures by themselves cannot make a person enlightened. They give knowledge, not wisdom. But the Ashtavakra Gita is different. This scripture negates every facet of life, except supreme consciousness.

Sage Ashtavakra says to Janaka: "My son, you recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything"(16.1). He stresses the import of knowing one's own self. A person may quote extensively from the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads. But only through self-knowledge can he even begin to discover the stainless truth.

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Ashtavakra: Ashtavakra's Guide To Instant Nirvana

The Ashtavakra Gita , also known as Ashtavakra Samhita , is a treatise that offers simple recipes for almost instant liberation. Swami Shantananda of Vasistha Guha calls it “a quantum leap into the absolute”.

A unique treatise on the non-dualistic advaita philosophy , the Ashtavakra Gita “guarantees to transport a seeker instantaneously from time to eternity, from the relative to the absolute and from bondage to liberation”, writes Swami Shantananda.

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Ashtavakra: This Is The Truth

Hindu Quotes: This Is The Truth

I am boundless space.

The world is a clay pot.

This is the truth.

There is nothing to accept,

Nothing to reject,

Nothing to dissolve.

- Ashtavakra Gita 6:1

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Ashtavakra: Limitless and Free

Hindu Quotes: Limitless and Free

You are always the same

Unfathomable awareness,

Limitless and free,

Serene and unperturbed.

Desire only your own awareness.

- Ashtavakra Gita 1:17

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Ashtavakra: Emptiness and Despair

Hindu Quotes: Emptiness and Despair

I am fulfilled.

The elements of nature,

The body and the senses,

What are they to me?

Or the mind?

What is emptiness or despair?

- Ashtavakra Gita 20:1

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Ashtavakra: Yesterday I Lived Bewildered

Hindu Quotes: Yesterday I Lived Bewildered

Yesterday I lived bewildered, in illusion. But now I am awake, flawless and serene, beyond the world. From my light the body and the world arise. So all things are mine, or nothing is.

- Ashtavakra Gita

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Ashtavakra: Forest of Ignorance

Hindu Quotes: Forest of Ignorance

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.

- Ashtavakra Gita 1:9

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Ashtavakra: Even If You Have Nothing

Hindu Quotes: Even If You Have Nothing

Even if you have nothing,

It is hard to find that contentment

Which comes from renunciation.

I accept nothing.

I reject nothing.

And I am happy.

- Ashtavakra Gita 13:

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Ashtavakra: Suffer Change

Hindu Quotes: Suffer Change

All things arise,

Suffer change,

And pass away.

This is their nature.

When you know this,

Nothing perturbs you,

Nothing hurts you.

You become still.

It is easy.

- Ashtavakra Gita 11:1

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Ashtavakra: Sorrow and Fear

Hindu Quotes: Sorrow and Fear

All sorrow comes from fear.

From nothing else.

When you know this,

You become free of it,

And desire melts away.

You become happy

And still.

- Ashtavakra Gita 11:5

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Ashtavakra: Bubbles in the Sea

Hindu Quotes: Bubbles in the Sea

Like bubbles in the sea,

All the worlds arise in you.

Know you are the Self.

Know you are one.

Let yourself dissolve.

You see the world.

But like the snake in the rope,

It is not really there.

You are pure.

Let yourself dissolve.

- Ashtavakra Gita 5:2-3

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Ashtavakra: I Sit in My Heart

Hindu Quotes: I Sit in My Heart

I am forever pure.

What is illusion,

Or the world?

What is the little soul,

Or God Himself?

One without two,

I am always the same.

I sit in my heart.

- Ashtavakra Gita 20:11-12

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Ashtavakra: Your Body Is Not You

Hindu Quotes: Your Body Is Not You

You are not your body.

Your body is not you.

You are not the doer.

You are not the enjoyer.

You are pure awareness,

The witness of all things.

You are without expectation,

Free.

Wherever you go,

Be happy!

- Ashtavakra Gita 15:4

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Ashtavakra: Mind of Distraction

Hindu Quotes: Mind of Distraction

First I gave up action,

Then idle words,

And lastly thought itself.

Now I am here.

Ridding my mind of distraction,

Single-pointed,

I shut out sounds and all the senses,

And I am here.

- Ashtavakra Gita 12:1-2

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Ashtavakra: True Seeker

Hindu Quotes: True Seeker

The true seeker feels no elation,

Even in that exalted state

Which Indra and all the gods

Unhappily long for.

He understands the nature of things.

His heart is not smudged

By right or wrong,

As the sky is not smudged by smoke.

- Ashtavakra Gita 4: 2-3

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Ashtavakra: Sorrows of duty

Hindu Quotes: Sorrows of duty

The sorrows of duty,

Like the heat of the sun,

Have scorched your heart.

But let stillness fall on you

With its sweet and cooling showers,

And you will find happiness.

- Ashtavakra Gita 18:3

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