aSTAvakra samhitA (gItA) : The Conversation between Ashatavakra – Janaka : 7.1 – 7.5 : Unreal universe, eternal, pure self.

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Ashtavakra (aSTAvakra) (Story From mahabharata)

Janaka said :

  1. The boat of the universe moves hither and thither by its own wind, the endless ocean that I am. There is no intolerance in me.
  2. May the wave of the universe rise and fall of its own in the endless ocean that I am. There is neither my growth nor decay.
  3. There is the vikalpana, the imagination of the universe in the endless ocean that I am. I stay in this extremely tranquil, formless Self.
  4. The self is not in the bhAva (perception). nah bhAvah = nO bhAvah = our perceptions in that which is endless and pure.
  5. Thus disinterested and detached and peaceful, only that I am, I stay!
  6. aho! I am cit, only! The world is like a magic show ( a trap of indra’s – indrajAla). Therefore where/how can there be my thought of rejection and acceptance?

Janaka says that the Self is greater than the universe which is nothing more than a wave, a boat or a magic show.

He says we neither need accept nor reject something that is so trivial and illusory.

satyA

 

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