Chapter 5 ( 4 verses)

 CHAPTER FIVE

अष्टावक्र उवाच​

Ashtaavakra spoke

{MELT OFF INTO YOURSELF}

न ते सङ्गोऽस्ति केनापि किं शुद्धस्त्यक्तुमिच्छसि ।

संघातविलयं कुर्वन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥५-१॥

You cannot be tainted by any contact. You are extremely pure.

Why should you renounce anything?

Dissolve the friction of contact; and become one with the essence of all.

(What is there to renounce for a person who is all?

Renunciation is possible, only when something is possessed by a person.

When there is one Consciousness alone without the second, what is there to renounce?

Do not get fooled by the reality of the objects around.

Do not prove their reality by the idea of renunciation.)

उदेति भवतो विश्वं वारिधेरिव बुद्बुदः ।

इति ज्ञ्नात्वैकमात्मानं एवमेव लयं व्रज ॥५-२॥

The Vishva rises from you (Aatman), like bubbles from the ocean.

Know that the essence of all is one only; and become one with the essence of all.

प्रत्यक्षमप्यवस्तुत्वाद्विश्वं नात्यमले त्वयि ।

रज्जुसर्प इव व्यक्तं एवमेव लयं व्रज ॥५-३॥

Though the world is directly perceived by the senses; it is made of emptiness only, and not real.

It does not exist at all in your taintless state.

Remove it off, like removing the snake from the rope; and become one with the essence of all.

समदुःखसुखः पूर्णः आशानैराश्ययोः समः ।

समजीवितमृत्युः सन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥५-४॥

Equal in pains and pleasures; complete (without wants);

equally treating fulfilments and disappointments;

equally observing the states of birth and death; become one with the essence of all.