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Hindu Quotes: Boundaries of Desire

Finding freedom in this life,

The seeker takes nothing to heart,

Neither duty nor desire.

He has nothing to do

But to live out his life.

The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire.

Delusion or the world,

Meditation on the truth,

Liberation itself--

What are they to him?

- Ashtavakra Gita 18: 13-14

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Ashtavakra: A Wise Man or a Seeker

Hindu Quotes: A Wise Man or a Seeker

If you desire liberation,

But you still say "mine,"

If you feel you are the body,

You are not a wise man or a seeker.

You are simply a man who suffers.

- Ashtavakra Gita 16:10

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Ashtavakra: You Are What You Think

Hindu Quotes: You Are What You Think

If you think you are free,

You are free.

If you think you are bound,

You are bound.

For the saying is true:

You are what you think.

- Ashtavakra Gita 1:11

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Ashtavakra: No Duties Bind You

Hindu Quotes: No Duties Bind You

You have no caste.

No duties bind you.

Formless and free,

Beyond the reach of the senses,

The witness of all things.

So be happy!

- Ashtavakra Gita 1:5

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Ashtavakra: The Self

Hindu Quotes: The Self

As a wave,

Seething and foaming,

Is only water

So all creation,

Streaming out of the Self,

Is only the Self.

Consider a piece of cloth.

It is only threads!

So all creation,

When you look closely,

Is only the Self.

- Ashtavakra Gita 2:4-5

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Ashtavakra: Root and Branches of the World

Hindu Quotes: Root and Branches of the World

When you live without discrimination,

Desire arises.

When desire persists,

Feelings of preference arise,

Of liking and disliking.

They are the root and branches of the world.

- Ashtavakra Gita 16:7

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Ashtavakra: Root of Suffering

Hindu Quotes: Root of Suffering

Two from one!

This is the root of suffering.

Only perceive

That I am one without two,

Pure awareness, pure joy,

And all the world is false.

There is no other remedy!

- Ashtavakra Gita 2:16

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Ashtavakra: Illusion

Hindu Quotes: Illusion

When the world arises in me,

It is just an illusion:

Water shimmering in the sun,

A vein of silver in mother-of-pearl,

A serpent in a strand of rope.

From me the world streams out

And in me it dissolves,

As a bracelet melts into gold,

A pot crumbles into clay,

A wave subsides into water.

- Ashtavakra Gita 2: 9-10

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Ashtavakra: Body Is False

Hindu Quotes: Body Is False

The body is false,

And so are its fears,

Heaven and hell, freedom and bondage.

It is all invention.

What can they matter to me?

I am awareness itself.

- Ashtavakra Gita 2:20

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Ashtavakra: Fruit of Wisdom

Hindu Quotes: Fruit of Wisdom

The man who is happy and pure

And likes his own company

Gathers the fruit of his practice

And the fruit of wisdom.

The man who knows the truth

Is never unhappy in the world.

For he alone fills the universe.

Just as the elephant loves

The leaves of the sallaki tree,

But not the neem tree,

So the man who loves himself

Always spurns the senses.

- Ashtavakra Gita 17:1-3

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Ashtavakra: Formless

Hindu Quotes: Formless

Whatever takes form is false.

Only the formless endures.

When you understand

The truth of this teaching,

You will not be born again.

For God is infinite,

Within the body and without,

Like a mirror,

And the image in a mirror.

As the air is everywhere,

Flowing around a pot

And filling it,

So God is everywhere,

Filling all things

And flowing through them forever.

- Ashtavakra Gita 1: 18-20

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Ashtavakra: Pure of Heart

Hindu Quotes: Pure of Heart

The man who is pure of heart

Is bound to fulfill himself

In whatever way he is taught.

A worldly man seeks all his life,

But is still bewildered.

Detached from the senses,

You are free.

Attached, you are bound.

When this is understood,

You may live as you please.

- Ashtavakra Gita 15:1-2

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Ashtavakra: I Am the Mother-of-Pearl

Hindu Quotes: I Am the Mother-of-Pearl

I am the mother-of-pearl.

The world is a vein of silver,

An illusion!

This is the truth.

Nothing to grasp,

Nothing to spurn,

Nothing to dissolve.

I am in all beings.

All beings are in me.

This is the whole truth.

Nothing to embrace,

Nothing to relinquish,

Nothing to dissolve.

- Ashtavakra Gita 6:3-4

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Ashtavakra: Art of Listening - Samyak Shravan

Art of Listening: Samyak Shravan

Listening, shravan, is one of the easiest and most spontaneous methods of meditation. Mahavira extolled the virtues of shravan. He taught his disciples to be Shravakas and Shravikas - those who become adept in right listening. All India-born religions agree upon the benefits of shravan. From ancient sages like Ashtavakra and Gautama the Buddha to modern mystics like J Krishnamurti, all praise Samyak Shravan or the art of listening.

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