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from The Ashtavakra Gita

 

 

STILLNESS

 

 

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.

 

God made all things.

There is only God.

 

When you know this,

Desire melts away.

 

Clinging to nothing,

You become still.

 

Sooner or later,

Fortune or misfortune

May befall you.

 

When you know this,

You desire nothing,

You grieve for nothing.

 

Subduing the senses,

You are happy.

 

Whatever you do

Brings joy or sorrow,

Life or death.

 

When you know this,

You may act freely,

Without attachment.

 

For what is there to accomplish?

 

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.

 

'I am not the body,

Nor is the body mine.

I am awareness itself.'

 

When you know this,

You have no thought

For what you have done

Or left undone.

 

You become one,

Perfect and indivisible.

 

'I am in all things,

>From Brahma to a blade of grass.'

 

When you know this,

You have no thought

For success or failure

Or the mind’s inconstancy.

 

You are pure.

You are still.

 

The world with all its wonders

Is nothing.

 

When you know this,

Desire melts away.

 

For you are awareness itself.

 

When you know in your heart

That there is nothing,

You are still.