aSTAvakra samhitA (gItA) : The Conversation between Ashatavakra and Janaka : 8.1 – 8.4 : "I" is bondage : Neither Accept nor Renounce

Ashtavakra (aSTAvakra) (Story From mahabharata)

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aSTAvakra said :

1. There is a bond (bandha) whenever the cit (roughly translated as consciousness in english, and identified as the Self in advaita), wants, thinks (worries), accepts, gives up, delights or is angry.
2. There is mukti (freedom) whenever the cit does not want, think (worry), accept, give up, delight or get angry.
3. There is bandha when the cit is interested in anything it perceives, there is mOkSa when the cit is disintrested in everything it percieves.
4. When there is no “I” there is mOkSa (freedom) and when there is  ”I” there is bandhana (bondage). Thinking thus don’t grasp (gRhANA) nor give up anything.

Notes :

aSTAvakra is telling us that the cit can ‘take an interest’ and thus bind itself!

satyA

 

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