Ashtavakra-Gita
Ashtavakra-Gita
Ashtavakra-Gita
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2.20<br />
The body exists only in imagination,<br />
as do heaven and hell,<br />
bondage, freedom, fear.<br />
Are these my concern?<br />
I, who am pure Awareness?<br />
2.21<br />
I see no differences or separation.<br />
Even the multitudes appear<br />
as a single formless desert.<br />
To what should I cling?<br />
2.22<br />
I am not the body.<br />
I do not have a body.<br />
I am Awareness, not a person.<br />
My thirst for life bound me<br />
to a seeming of life.<br />
2.23<br />
In the limitless ocean of Myself<br />
the winds of the mind<br />
roil the myriad waves of the world.<br />
2.24<br />
But when the wind subsides<br />
in the limitless ocean<br />
the ark of personhood is swallowed up,<br />
along with the universe it carries.<br />
2.25<br />
And how wonderful it is!<br />
In the limitless ocean of Myself,<br />
waves of beings<br />
arise, collide, play for a time,<br />
then disappear--as is their nature.
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