Month: April 2018

Ashtavakra – 9 – Detachment

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Ashtavakra said:

9.1

Opposing forces,

duties done and left undone

when does it end and for whom?

Considering this,

be ever desireless,

let go of all things,

and to the world turn an indifferent eye.

9.2

Rare and blessed is one whose desire to live,

to enjoy and to know,

has been extinguished by observing the ways of men.

9.3

Seeing all things as threefold suffering,

the sage becomes still. Insubstantial, transient, contemptible

the world is fit only for rejection.

9.4

Was there an age or time men existed without opposites?

Leave the opposites behind.

Be content with what comes.

Perfection.

9.5

The greatest seers,

saints and yogis agree on very little.

Seeing this,

who could not be indifferent to knowledge and become still?

9.6

One who through worldly indifference,

through serenity and reason,

sees his true nature and escapes illusion

is he not a true teacher?

9.7

In the myriad forms of the universe see the primal element alone.

You will be instantly free,

and abide in Self.

9.8

Desire creates the world

renounce it.

Renounce desires and you renounce the world.

Now you may live as you are.

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My feet look like the earth

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My feet look like the earth

I am not sure how they shaped this way

They did not look like this

At birth

My legs look like the trees

I love how they support me

They are long and strong

They carry my weight

with ease

My hips look like a Volcano

Every now and then, I burst

I can’t explain that tendency

It is a kind of thirst

 My eyes look like a lake

You can drown and see your mirror there

Discover where you are truthful

Discover where you are fake

My heart looks like the sky

It is blue and grey

It is vast and open

It’s the space in which

my love can fly

 

And if I ever cry

My eyes, the lake, will overflow

teardrops flow down my feet

They irrigate and nourish the earth

And that is how I will grow

Painting: Sadness of Gaia
– Josephine Wall
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Ashtavakra – 10 – Quietude

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Ashtavakra said:

10.1

Give up desire,

which is the enemy.

Give up prosperity,

which is born of mischief and good works.

Be indifferent.

10.2

Look upon friends, lands, wealth, houses, wives, gifts

and all apparent good fortune

as a passing show, as a dream lasting three to five days.

10.3

Where there is desire,

there is the world.

Be firm in non-attachment.

Be free of desire.

Be happy.

10.4

Bondage and desire are the same.

Destroy desire and be free.

Only by detaching from the world does one joyfully realize Self.

10.5

You are One—

Awareness itself.

The universe is neither aware nor does it exist.

Even ignorance is unreal.

What is left to know?

10.6

Attached as you have been to kingdoms, sons, wives, bodies, pleasures

life after life

still they are now lost forever

10.7

Prosperity, pleasure, pious deeds…

Enough!

In the dreary forest of the world the mind finds no rest.

10.8

For how many lifetimes have you done hard and painful labor with body,

mind and speech?

It is time to stop.

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