Fwd: Ashtavakra Samhita

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Dear Harsha,

 

I am happy to post the verses of Ashtavakra Gita on satsangh.

Due to some confusion here the forwarding is chaotic, but I think

members will be able to figure out right sequence of verses. Anyway we

did not get very far.

 

If somebody would like to comment and maybe go through the verses

together, most welcome.

 

Om Arunachala Shiva

Chris

 

 

> christiane cameron <christianecameron

> May 17, 2005 23:25:47 GMT+02:00

> atma_vichara

> Cc: RamanaMaharshi

> Ashtavakra Samhita

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> Dear friends,

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> tonight, without apparent reason, a little booklet fell from the

> shelve down at my feet. It turned out to be Ashtavakra Gita, a text

> loved by our Bhagavan, which he always recommended for study to

> seekers. He copied out the Sanscrit version of the Kannada text in his

> own hand, which makes the original very valuable indeed. Maybe we

> should read it together.

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> It starts with King Janaka asking Sage Ashtavakra: How can knowledge

> be acquired? How can liberaton be attained. How is renunciation

> possible?- Tell me this, oh Lord.

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> Ashtavakra: If you aspire after liberation, my child, shun the objects

> of the senses as poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity, kindness,

> contentment and truth as nectar.

> You are neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air, nor ether. In

> order to attain liberation realize yourself as the knower of all these

> and consciousness itself.

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> If you detach the body and rest in Intelligence, you will at once be

> happy , peaceful and free from bondage.

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> to be continued

> from

> Ashtavakra Samhita

> translation 1931 by Swamy Nityaswarupananda

> Ramakrishna Mission

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> Om Arunachala Shiva

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