Ashtavakra-Gita
Ashtavakra-Gita
Ashtavakra-Gita
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16.7<br />
As long as there is desire--<br />
which is the absence of discrimination--<br />
there will be attachment and non-attachment.<br />
This is the cause of the world.<br />
16.8<br />
Indulgence creates attachment.<br />
Aversion creates abstinence.<br />
Like a child, the sage is free of both<br />
and thus lives on as a child.<br />
16.9<br />
One who is attached to the world<br />
thinks renouncing it will relieve his misery.<br />
One who is attached to nothing is free<br />
and does not feel miserable<br />
even in the world.<br />
16.10<br />
He who claims liberation as his own,<br />
as an attainment of a person,<br />
is neither enlightened nor a seeker.<br />
He suffers his own misery.<br />
16.11<br />
Though Hara, Hari<br />
or the lotus-born Brahma himself<br />
instruct you,<br />
until you know nothing<br />
you will never know Self.