ASTAVAKRA GITA - 19, 20

XIX

Janaka said:

1. Using the tweezers of the knowledge of the truth I have managed to extract the painful thorn of endless opinions from the recesses of my heart.

2. For me, established in my own glory, there is no religion, sensuality, possessions, philosophy, duality or even non-duality.

3. For me established in my own glory, there is no past, future or present. There is no space or even eternity.

4. For me established in my own glory, there is no self or non-self, no good or evil, no thought or even absence of thought.

5. For me established in my own glory, there is no dreaming or deep sleep, no waking nor other state beyond them, and certainly no fear.

6. For me established in my own glory, there is nothing far away and nothing near, nothing within or without, nothing large and nothing small.

7. For me established in my own glory, there is no life or death, no worlds or things of this world, no distraction and no stillness of mind.

8. For me remaining in myself, there is no need for talk of the three goals of life, of union or of knowledge.


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Janaka said:

1. In my unblemished nature there are no elements, no body, no faculties no mind. There is no void and no despair.

2. For me, free from the sense of dualism, there are no scriptures, no self-knowledge, no mind free from an object, no satisfaction and no freedom from desire.

3. There is no knowledge or ignorance, no “me”, “this” or “mine”, no bondage, no liberation, and no property of self-nature.

4. For one who is always free from individual characteristics there is no antecedent causal action, no liberation during life, and no fulfilment at death.

5. For me, free from individuality, there is no doer and no reaper of the consequences, no cessation of action, no arising of thought, no immediate object, and no idea of results.

6. There is no world, no seeker for liberation, no mystic, no seer, no-one bound and no-one liberated. I remain in my own non-dual nature.

7. There is no emanation or return, no goal, means, seeker or achievment. I remain in my own non-dual nature.

8. For me who am forever unblemishedf, there is no assessor, no standard, nothing to assess, or assessment.

9. For me who am forever actionless, there is no distraction or one-pointedness of mind, no lack of understanding, no stupidity, no joy and no sorrow.

10. For me who am always free from deliberations there is neither conventional truth nor absolute truth, no happiness and no suffering.

11. For me who am forever pure there is no illusion, no samsara, no attachment or detachment, no living being and no God.

12. For me who am forever unmovable and indivisible, established in myself, there is no activity or inactivity, no liberation and no bondage.

13. For me who am blessed and without limitation, there is no initiation or scripture, no disciple or teacher, and no goal of human life.

14. There is no being or non-being, no unity or dualism. What more is there to say? Nothing emanates from me.