CHAPTER FIFTEEN
अष्टावक्र उवाच
Ashtaavakra spoke
{YOU ARE OF THE FORM OF BLISS}
यथातथोपदेशेन कृतार्थः सत्त्वबुद्धिमान्
।
आजीवमपि जिज्ञ्नासुः परस्तत्र विमुह्यति
॥१५-१॥
A man of clear thinking,
attains the fulfilment of his life even
through a little instruction here and there.
A person, who is striving all through
his life to attain the knowledge of the Reality,
gets only the incorrect knowledge of the
Supreme.
(A man who has no irrational beliefs and irrational concepts of
deities, who can approach any proper instruction with an open mind; who can
analyze the instruction with his intellect to find the validity in it; such a
man does not have to read all the philosophies and scriptures of the world to
understand the Reality.
A few words are enough! He
will do the thinking himself and get the answer!
Whereas the ignorant man who
believes that Moksha is a state to be attained through hard penance and
abundant studies, wastes his whole life in outward actions of seeking Gurus,
studying all philosophies of all thinkers, does austerities, visits holy
places, seeks saints, except doing the one important thing- Vichaara, which
alone has the power to bestow Knowledge.)
मोक्षो विषयवैरस्यं बन्धो वैषयिको रसः
।
एतावदेव विज्ञ्नानं यथेच्छसि तथा कुरु
॥१५-२॥
Moksha is disinterest in
sense-pleasures.
Bondage is the taste connected to sense
objects.
This is the right understanding. Act in
whatever way you want to.
(Actions of abstinence and
austerities never bring Moksha nearer in any way.)
वाग्मिप्राज्ञ्नमहोद्योगं जनं मूकजडालसम्
करोति तत्त्वबोधोऽयमतस्त्यक्तो बुभुक्षुभिः
॥१५-३॥
A person, who is enterprising,
intelligent and has the talent of good speech,
becomes dumb, inert and lazy because of
this Self-Knowledge.
That is why the people, who are eager
for the enjoyment of the world, reject it.
(Why people fear the word
Moksha?
They think that a person
desiring Moksha will not attend to the family any more; may resign his job; go
and get stuck to some Guru and his ashram; may run away; may not act
responsible; may sit off at home with closed eyes in lotus posture blabbering
some Mantra; stop eating normal food, and eat only fruits and leaves; may stop
loving the family members; may become an inert useless member of the society
and so on!
They are not to be blamed.
The ignorant idiots who seek
Moksha do all this; and have brought about a complete wrong understanding to
the word ‘Moksha’.
The others, who observe them,
avoid Moksha like a virus; like an infection, which when sought, will make them
also irresponsible and idiot-like.
Why renounce any outward thing at all?
Live a normal life surrounded
by family and friends; do any work that you are already used to; attend to your
duties normally like any other person; do not waste time in forced meditations
and Guru-worships.
Think; think; think; whenever
the mind is free of jobs, think as if the answer of finding the reality is the
cure for all your sufferings.
Whenever engaged in
mechanical actions done by organs of action, think, think, and think. Think
what the true ‘I’ is!
Analyze the objects and
discover them as made of sense-perceptions only.
There is nothing out there as
a world; it is sheer emptiness; so empty that even emptiness is not there as
anything.
Find out what Vaasanaas
lingering in your mind still, and destroy them through reasoning. Be a good
father; a good husband; god wife; good son; and a good member of the society.
Moksha does not mean sitting
like an idiot.
Moksha means that you are the
most perfect evolved person of the world; like a Rama; like a Krishna .
Rama realized when he was
fifteen years of age.
They did not live in caves
with closed eyes sitting on a lotus posture.
They did not sit off in the
comfort of their Guru’s ashrams, living a lazy life.
They were the best of hard
workers.
A ‘Mukta’ is not a Zombie;
but the best of humans revered by even by Gods.)
न त्वं देहो न ते देहो भोक्ता कर्ता न
वा भवान् ।
चिद्रूपोऽसि सदा साक्षी निरपेक्षः सुखं
चर ॥१५-४॥
You are not the body; you do not have a
body;
you are not an enjoyer of anything; you
are not a doer.
You are of the form of Chit.
You are always the witness of all.
You are removed of all desires.
Move about happily.
रागद्वेषौ मनोधर्मौ न मनस्ते कदाचन ।
निर्विकल्पोऽसि बोधात्मा निर्विकारः सुखं
चर ॥१५-५॥
Attraction and repulsion are the
qualities of the mind.
You do not have a mind at all.
You are unperturbed. You are of the
nature of Knowledge.
You are changeless.
Move about happily.
सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि
।
विज्ञ्नाय निरहंकारो निर्ममस्त्वं सुखी
भव ॥१५-६॥
Know your essence in all and all the
beings as your essence.
Remain without the ego. Have no idea of
possessions.
Remain in the blissful state.
विश्वं स्फुरति यत्रेदं तरङ्गा इव सागरे
।
तत्त्वमेव न संदेहश्चिन्मूर्ते विज्वरो
भव ॥१५-७॥
The world shines forth (as
Knowledge-bits) like waves in the ocean
of Knowledge
You are that alone. There is no doubt.
Hey Chit-form! Be freed of the fever of
worldly existence.
श्रद्धस्व तात श्रद्धस्व नात्र मोहं
कुरुष्व भोः ।
ज्ञ्नानस्वरूपो भगवानात्मा त्वं प्रकृतेः
परः ॥१५-८॥
Have trust my dear Janaka, have trust.
Do not feel doubtful about this at all.
You are of the form of Knowledge.
You are the Supreme with powers.
You are the essence of all. You are
beyond the inert nature (body).
गुणैः संवेष्टितो देहस्तिष्टत्यायाति
याति च ।
आत्मा न गन्ता नागन्ता किमेनमनुशोचसि
॥१५-९॥
The body is enveloped fully by the three
Gunas of Sattva rajas and Tamas.
It stays, comes and goes.
(It was born; stays for some time and
dies.)
Aatman does not go or come.
(Atman is not born; it does not die; it
is always as it is.)
Why do you lament about it?
(Why do you cry about the body which has
the natural quality of perishing?)
देहस्तिष्त्टतु कल्पान्तं गच्छत्वद्यैव
वा पुनः ।
क्व वृद्धिः क्व च वा हानिस्तव चिन्मात्ररूपिणः
॥१५-१०॥
Let the body stay till the end of the
Kalpa; or let it die off today itself!
When you are of the form of
Knowledge-expanse alone,
what gain or loss is there for you?
(You as a witness-awareness
have the knowledge of the birth and death of the body.
You do not get born or die.
Knowledge is pure and
untainted by that which it knows.
Knowledge of fire does not
burn you, the Knowledge form.
Knowledge of death does not
bring death to you, the Knowledge form.)
त्वय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ विश्ववीचिः स्वभावतः
।
उदेतु वास्तमायातु न ते वृद्धिर्न वा
क्षतिः ॥१५-११॥
You are the endless stretch of the ocean
(of consciousness).
Let the Vishva-wave rise up or fall back
into the ocean;
no gain or harm is there for you because of
that.
तात चिन्मात्ररूपोऽसि न ते भिन्नमिदं
जगत् ।
अतः कस्य कथं कुत्र हेयोपादेयकल्पना
॥१५-१२॥
Dear one! You are of the form of
Chit-expanse alone.
This world is not different from you.
Therefore,
for who, how, where is the imagined
ideas of rejection and acceptance?
एकस्मिन्नव्यये शान्ते चिदाकाशेऽमले त्वयि
।
कुतो जन्म कुतो कर्म कुतोऽहंकार एव च
॥१५-१३॥
When you are the one, changeless,
tranquil, taintless expanse of Chit,
where is the birth, where is Karma,
where is even the Ahamkaara (ego)?
यत्त्वं पश्यसि तत्रैकस्त्वमेव प्रतिभाससे
।
किं पृथक्भासते स्वर्णात्कटकाङ्गदनूपुरम्
॥१५-१४॥
Whatever you perceive, you alone shine
there.
Do the varied shapes of Kataka, Angada
(types of bracelets), and anklets
shine separately from gold?
(Object of Knowledge is not
different from the Knower of the object.)
अयं सोऽहमयं नाहं विभागमिति सन्त्यज
।
सर्वमात्मेति निश्चित्य निःसङ्कल्पः सुखी
भव ॥१५-१५॥
‘I am this’ ‘I am not this’; renounce
such ideas of difference.
Be ascertained that you are the essence
of all.
Remain without any imagined conception.
Be blissful in your natural state.
तवैवाज्ञ्नानतो विश्वं त्वमेकः परमार्थतः
।
त्वत्तोऽन्यो नास्ति सम्सारी नासंसारी
च कश्चन ॥१५-१६॥
Because of your ignorance only, this
world exists.
(Knowledge of ignorance shines as the
world.)
You are actually one only. There is no
other one than you.
There is no one stuck to the world, or
freed of the world.
भ्रान्तिमात्रमिदं विश्वं न किंचिदिति
निश्चयी ।
निर्वासनः स्फूर्तिमात्रो न किंचिदिव
शाम्यति ॥१५-१७॥
‘This world is just a form of delusion;
there is nothing else.’
With this ascertainment, remain without
any Vaasanaa,
as just a conscious-burst only.
The Vishva subsides off as nothing.
एक एव भवाम्भोधावासीदस्ति भविष्यति ।
न ते बन्धोऽस्ति मोक्षो वा कृतकृत्यः
सुखं चर ॥१५-१८॥
One alone existed in the Bhava-ocean, is
and will be.
You do not have bondage; or liberation.
With the fulfilment state, move happily.
मा संकल्पविकल्पाभ्यां चित्तं क्षोभय
चिन्मय ।
उपशाम्य सुखं तिष्ट स्वात्मन्यानन्दविग्रहे
॥१५-१९॥
Hey you of the nature of Chit!
Do not have agitations in the mind about
the conceptions (you have about the world)
and their turning otherwise (bringing in
disappointments).
Quieten down.
Remain happy, in the blissful state of
one’s own essence.
त्यजैव ध्यानं सर्वत्र मा किंचिधृदि धारय
।
आत्मा त्वं मुक्त एवासि किं विमृश्य करिष्यसि
॥१५-२०॥
Stop the thoughts from going all over.
Hold nothing in the mind.
You are the essence of all. You are
already liberated. Why feel doubtful?
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