{"id":6204,"date":"2022-04-18T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2022-04-18T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:50:09","slug":"ashtavakra-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/18\/ashtavakra-gita\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashtavakra-Gita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was reading Ashtavakra-Gita yesterday. Thanks to Nirajan for recommending me. It is a 60-page discourse between King Janak and his guru Ashtavakra. I found the section on Bondage and Liberation hitting hard to me. I felt like sharing the same here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When the mind desires or grieves things, accepts or rejects things, is pleased or displeased by things&#8211; this is bondage.<\/p><p>When the mind does not desire or grieve, accept or reject, become pleased or displeased, liberation is at hand.<\/p><p>If the mind is attached to any experience, this is bondage. When the mind is detached from all experience, this is liberation.<\/p><p>When there is no \u201cI\u201d there is only liberation. When \u201cI\u201d appears bondage appears with it. Knowing this, it is effortless to refrain from accepting and rejecting<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Other quotes I had shared on Twitter earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The body exists only in imagination,<br>as do heaven and hell,<br>bondage, freedom, fear.<br>Are these my concern?<br>I, who am pure Awareness?<br>&#8212; King Janak, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515632531613548546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He who is unattached,<br>untouched by opposites,<br>free of desire,<br>experiences neither pleasure nor pain<br>as events pass through.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515634638211149829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Look upon<br>friends, lands, wealth, houses, wives, gifts&#8211;<br>and all apparent good fortune&#8211;<br>as a passing show,<br>as a dream lasting three to five days.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515637767224848387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Existence, non-existence, change&#8211;<br>this is the nature of things.<br>Realizing this,<br>stillness, serenity and bliss<br>naturally follow.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515638346177212417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aversion to the world\u2019s offerings is liberation.<br>Attraction to the world\u2019s offerings<br>is the suffering of bondage.<br>This is the truth.<br>Now do as you please.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515639989300006919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Indulgence creates attachment.<br>Aversion creates abstinence.<br>Like a child, the sage is free of both<br>and thus lives on as a child.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515641306613424129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rare in the world<br>is one who does not<br>relish past enjoyments,<br>nor yearn for enjoyments to come.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515641936597884931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Even doing nothing<br>the dull one is anxious and distracted.<br>Even amidst great action<br>the wise one remains still.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515644865035800582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The liberated soul<br>has no desire in his heart.<br>He is content and indifferent.<br>He has no equal.<br>&#8212; Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra-Gita<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1515646023083106315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Ashtavakra-Gita yesterday. 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