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Ashtavakra Gita

King Janaka and the sage Ashtavakra · 298 verses on the self already free

186 readings

Ashtavakra Gita — The First Instruction

• A King's Three Questions · Ashtavakra Gita 1.1
• Poison and Nectar · Ashtavakra Gita 1.2
• Witness of the Elements · Ashtavakra Gita 1.3
• No Label Fits You · Ashtavakra Gita 1.5
• Free of Mind's Weather · Ashtavakra Gita 1.6
• The Seer Seen Elsewhere · Ashtavakra Gita 1.7
• The Snake of Doership · Ashtavakra Gita 1.8
• Fire of Certainty · Ashtavakra Gita 1.9
• The World Like a Rope · Ashtavakra Gita 1.10
• Conviction Shapes Your Course · Ashtavakra Gita 1.11
• The Witness Who Does Nothing · Ashtavakra Gita 1.12
• Cutting the Body-Noose · Ashtavakra Gita 1.14
• Striving Is Bondage · Ashtavakra Gita 1.15
• The Thread Through Everything · Ashtavakra Gita 1.16
• Shape Passes, Stillness Stays · Ashtavakra Gita 1.18
• Within and Around the Body · Ashtavakra Gita 1.19

Ashtavakra Gita — Janaka Wakes

• Stainless, Awake, Deluded So Long · Ashtavakra Gita 2.1
• One Light on All · Ashtavakra Gita 2.2
• Foam, Thread, and Water · Ashtavakra Gita 2.4
• Sweetness Through the Cane · Ashtavakra Gita 2.6
• Rope Mistaken for Snake · Ashtavakra Gita 2.7
• My Own Form Is Light · Ashtavakra Gita 2.8
• Clay, Wave, Gold Bracelet · Ashtavakra Gita 2.9
• The Self That Remains · Ashtavakra Gita 2.11
• Upholding Without Touching · Ashtavakra Gita 2.12
• Nothing, Yet Everything · Ashtavakra Gita 2.14
• One Cure for Two · Ashtavakra Gita 2.15
• Imagined Limits, Resting Mind · Ashtavakra Gita 2.17
• No Bondage, No Liberation · Ashtavakra Gita 2.18
• Heaven and Hell Imagined · Ashtavakra Gita 2.20
• A Crowd Like a Forest · Ashtavakra Gita 2.21
• Wanting to Live Was the Chain · Ashtavakra Gita 2.22
• World-ship on the ocean · Ashtavakra Gita 2.23
• Souls as playing waves · Ashtavakra Gita 2.25
• Silver in the shell · Ashtavakra Gita 3.1
• The Rich Man Running · Ashtavakra Gita 3.3
• Hearing Without Living It · Ashtavakra Gita 3.4
• Mine-ness Persists · Ashtavakra Gita 3.5
• Fear of Freedom · Ashtavakra Gita 3.7
• Unshaken by Praise, Blame · Ashtavakra Gita 3.9
• Fearless Before Death · Ashtavakra Gita 3.11
• Content Without Wanting · Ashtavakra Gita 3.12
• Nothing to Take or Leave · Ashtavakra Gita 3.13
• The Knower at Play · Ashtavakra Gita 4.1
• Untouched Like the Sky · Ashtavakra Gita 4.3
• No One Can Restrain Him · Ashtavakra Gita 4.4
• Fear Has No Foothold · Ashtavakra Gita 4.5

Ashtavakra Gita — Letting the World Dissolve

• Nothing Clings to You · Ashtavakra Gita 5.1
• Bubbles From the Sea · Ashtavakra Gita 5.2
• Rope Taken for Snake · Ashtavakra Gita 5.3
• Level in Every Weather · Ashtavakra Gita 5.4
• Boundless as Sky · Ashtavakra Gita 6.1
• Ocean and Its Waves · Ashtavakra Gita 6.2
• Silver on a Shell · Ashtavakra Gita 6.3
• One Self, Everywhere Seen · Ashtavakra Gita 6.4
• Ocean and Waves · Ashtavakra Gita 7.1
• World as Imagination · Ashtavakra Gita 7.3
• Unattached, Wanting Nothing · Ashtavakra Gita 7.4
• Nothing to Take or Leave · Ashtavakra Gita 7.5
• Bondage and Freedom Defined · Ashtavakra Gita 8.1
• Holding No View · Ashtavakra Gita 8.3
• Opposites That Never Settle · Ashtavakra Gita 9.1
• When Wanting Fades · Ashtavakra Gita 9.2
• Pairs That Never End · Ashtavakra Gita 9.4
• Seeing Things As They Are · Ashtavakra Gita 9.6
• Desire Is the Wandering · Ashtavakra Gita 9.8
• Possessions Lasting Three Days · Ashtavakra Gita 10.1
• Craving Is the Bondage · Ashtavakra Gita 10.3
• Lost Life After Life · Ashtavakra Gita 10.5
• Enough Doing, Rest Now · Ashtavakra Gita 10.7

Ashtavakra Gita — The Still Knower

• Nature Makes, Desire Dissolves · Ashtavakra Gita 11.1
• Untouched While Acting · Ashtavakra Gita 11.3
• Worry Is the Root of Sorrow · Ashtavakra Gita 11.5
• One Self, Everywhere · Ashtavakra Gita 11.6
• No Wonder, Only Rest · Ashtavakra Gita 11.8
• Dropping Doing, Then Talking · Ashtavakra Gita 12.2
• Nothing to Grasp or Refuse · Ashtavakra Gita 12.3
• Even Stopping Is Imagined · Ashtavakra Gita 12.5
• Resting Beyond Thought · Ashtavakra Gita 12.7
• Nothing Held, Nothing Dropped · Ashtavakra Gita 13.1
• Action Without an Actor · Ashtavakra Gita 13.3
• Standing, Walking, Sleeping · Ashtavakra Gita 13.4
• Loss and gain let go · Ashtavakra Gita 13.6
• Awake like a sleeper · Ashtavakra Gita 14.1
• When wanting melts away · Ashtavakra Gita 14.2
• Inside still, outside free · Ashtavakra Gita 14.3
• One Hearing Is Enough · Ashtavakra Gita 15.1
• Taste Gone, Chain Gone · Ashtavakra Gita 15.2
• Hungry Seekers Walk Away · Ashtavakra Gita 15.3
• Not the Doer, Not the Body · Ashtavakra Gita 15.4
• Likes Belong to the Mind · Ashtavakra Gita 15.5
• One Self in All · Ashtavakra Gita 15.6
• Waves on the Sea · Ashtavakra Gita 15.7
• Faith, Not Confusion · Ashtavakra Gita 15.8
• The Self Neither Comes Nor Goes · Ashtavakra Gita 15.9
• Waves on Boundless Water · Ashtavakra Gita 15.11
• Nothing to Take or Throw · Ashtavakra Gita 15.12
• Gold Behind Every Ornament · Ashtavakra Gita 15.14
• Everything Is the Self · Ashtavakra Gita 15.15
• Nobody Is Wandering · Ashtavakra Gita 15.16
• Nothing Left to Do · Ashtavakra Gita 15.18
• Put Down Even Meditation · Ashtavakra Gita 15.19
• Ease Beyond Learning and Doing · Ashtavakra Gita 16.1
• Weariness Nobody Notices · Ashtavakra Gita 16.3
• Neither Clinging Nor Rejecting · Ashtavakra Gita 16.5
• The Tree Longing Feeds · Ashtavakra Gita 16.7
• Pride in Liberation · Ashtavakra Gita 16.9
• Peace Through Forgetting · Ashtavakra Gita 16.11
• Content Alone, Never Grieving · Ashtavakra Gita 17.1
• The Elephant's Taste · Ashtavakra Gita 17.3
• Free of Wanting Both · Ashtavakra Gita 17.4
• Living on What Comes · Ashtavakra Gita 17.6
• The Empty Gaze · Ashtavakra Gita 17.8
• Neither Waking Nor Sleeping · Ashtavakra Gita 17.10
• Free While Fully Acting · Ashtavakra Gita 17.12
• One Look For Everything · Ashtavakra Gita 17.14
• Neither Pushing Nor Pulling · Ashtavakra Gita 17.16
• Hope Melted From Within · Ashtavakra Gita 17.18
• The Melted Mind · Ashtavakra Gita 17.20

Ashtavakra Gita — Peace

• Waking From Delusion · Ashtavakra Gita 18.1
• Why Gaining Never Satisfies · Ashtavakra Gita 18.2
• Never Far Away · Ashtavakra Gita 18.4
• Nothing Left to Practise · Ashtavakra Gita 18.6
• Silence After Knowing · Ashtavakra Gita 18.8
• Throne and Alms Bowl · Ashtavakra Gita 18.10
• Life Without Tasks · Ashtavakra Gita 18.12
• Even Freedom Falls Away · Ashtavakra Gita 18.14
• No Effort Left · Ashtavakra Gita 18.15
• Ordinary on the Outside · Ashtavakra Gita 18.18
• A Leaf the Wind Carries · Ashtavakra Gita 18.20
• A Cool, Settled Mind · Ashtavakra Gita 18.22
• Acting Without Claiming · Ashtavakra Gita 18.24
• Rest After Inquiry · Ashtavakra Gita 18.26
• Nothing Left Undone · Ashtavakra Gita 18.28
• A Mind Without Motive · Ashtavakra Gita 18.30
• Rest Beyond Concentration · Ashtavakra Gita 18.32
• Settled by Knowing · Ashtavakra Gita 18.34
• Wishing to Become · Ashtavakra Gita 18.36
• Chasing Calm, Missing It · Ashtavakra Gita 18.38
• Stillness That Is Not Forced · Ashtavakra Gita 18.40
• Practice Without Recognition · Ashtavakra Gita 18.42
• The Leaning Mind · Ashtavakra Gita 18.44
• The Lion and the Elephants · Ashtavakra Gita 18.45
• Living at ease, unafraid · Ashtavakra Gita 18.47
• Straight, like a child · Ashtavakra Gita 18.49
• Freedom, the single root · Ashtavakra Gita 18.50
• Calm that isn't staged · Ashtavakra Gita 18.51
• Freedom Without Craving · Ashtavakra Gita 18.53
• Laughed At, Unshaken · Ashtavakra Gita 18.55
• Duty as Bondage · Ashtavakra Gita 18.57
• Calm Like a Lake · Ashtavakra Gita 18.59
• Renunciation Without Struggle · Ashtavakra Gita 18.61
• The Child's Clean Hands · Ashtavakra Gita 18.63
• Even Mind, Open Sky · Ashtavakra Gita 18.65
• Neither Pleasure Nor Freedom · Ashtavakra Gita 18.67
• The World of Names · Ashtavakra Gita 18.69
• Nothing Left to Practise · Ashtavakra Gita 18.71
• Without I or Mine · Ashtavakra Gita 18.73
• Quiet Outside, Hungry Within · Ashtavakra Gita 18.75
• Action Falls Away · Ashtavakra Gita 18.77
• Beyond Every Name · Ashtavakra Gita 18.79
• A Mind Already Full · Ashtavakra Gita 18.81
• Nothing Left to Want · Ashtavakra Gita 18.83
• Rest Beyond Body's Fortunes · Ashtavakra Gita 18.85
• Untied Heart, Open Road · Ashtavakra Gita 18.87
• Eyes Open, Nothing Kept · Ashtavakra Gita 18.89
• Straight and Fulfilled · Ashtavakra Gita 18.91
• The Untellable Inner Rest · Ashtavakra Gita 18.93
• Free of Every Label · Ashtavakra Gita 18.95
• Nothing Left to Do · Ashtavakra Gita 18.97
• Same in Crowd, Same Alone · Ashtavakra Gita 18.99

Ashtavakra Gita — Janaka's Last Words

• Pulling Out the Thorn · Ashtavakra Gita 19.1
• Nothing Left to Measure · Ashtavakra Gita 19.2
• Dream, Sleep, Waking, Fourth · Ashtavakra Gita 19.4
• Near, Far, Life, Death · Ashtavakra Gita 19.6
• Enough Talk, Rest · Ashtavakra Gita 19.8
• Nothing Left to Locate · Ashtavakra Gita 20.1
• Beyond Every Pair · Ashtavakra Gita 20.2
• The Painter Without a Picture · Ashtavakra Gita 20.3
• Beyond Destiny and Liberation · Ashtavakra Gita 20.4
• No Doer, No Enjoyer · Ashtavakra Gita 20.5
• Every Role Dissolves · Ashtavakra Gita 20.6
• Three Pillars of Knowing · Ashtavakra Gita 20.8
• Nothing Touches the Witness · Ashtavakra Gita 20.9
• Even Freedom Falls Away · Ashtavakra Gita 20.11
• Teacher and Pupil Both Dissolve · Ashtavakra Gita 20.13

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