Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 3, Vs. 1-8 Commentary and Contemplation - 11th August 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta explores the Ashtavakra Gita's tests of self-realization, questioning why one who knows their indestructible nature would still succumb to desire, ownership, or the fear of death. He urges staying empty of all conceptual positions.
Having realized yourself as pure awareness, beautiful beyond description, how can you remain a slave to lust?
Strange that one who can discriminate between the transient and the timeless should yet fear the dissolution of the body.
Prior to the concept about yourself, what is it that you are?
contemplative
Transcript
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We charge a fee today. The chapter was called 'Test of Self-Realization.' Mm-hmm. Murder is death fulfilled three ways. What happened to Ashtavakra? The stories require that Janaka asks the telegraph for help to discover themselves, to find the Self. And then I started the passport for the first chapter and then emphatically discussed. She added to that beautiful second chapter, which was all about Janaka sharing it with coming and cookie. What a master will do is not just take your initial word for it, because we also know that the spiritual using time after that, if you're looking over forty years, is prepared to Self-realization. It is external pertaining.
Having realized yourself as one being, serene and indestructible, why do you desire? Having realized yourself as one being, serene and indestructible, why do you desire? Janaka currently, it is I will question him because Janaka was the king. So also, according to series, there's some attachment feels that remains to the wealth of the kingdom. This is imagining silver in mother-of-pearl causes greed to arise, so does ignorance of Self cause desire for illusion. So we discussed all this in great detail in the past, so I won't elaborate so much external. And if you have a question, you can stop me.
This is imagining silver in mother-of-pearl causes greed to arise, so the ignorance of Self causes desire for illusions. As it realized yourself as an ocean in which the waves of the world rise and fall, why do you run around in turmoil? I can realize yourself as that which waves of the world rise and fall, why do you run around in turmoil? I can realize yourself as pure awareness, as beautiful beyond description, how can you remain a slave to lust? I realize yourself as pure awareness, as beautiful beyond description, how can you remain a slave to lust? Key point: Airy cleaved left nothing that lust should not arise, then don't be a slave to it.
It is strange that in the seeds was realized Self in all and all in themselves, the sense of ownership should continue. We also really poking with all the chain within support. Well, why are you running around in turmoil? All about the worship, hooking it. Lust and the sense of ownership isn't something it belongs to me, nor something is mine. Me and attachment that we often spoken about. Strange that one abiding in the Absolute, intent on freedom, should be vulnerable to lust and weakened by amorous pastimes. Strange that one abiding in the Absolute, intent on freedom, should be vulnerable to lust and weakened by amorous pastimes. Strange that an enemy of knowledge, one so mean and nearing death, so still craves and sensual felt pleasure. Strange that knowing lust as an enemy of knowledge, and so we can getting that, should still crave sensual pleasure.
Strange that one who is unattached to the things of this world and the next, who can discriminate between the transient and the timeless, yearns for freedom, should yet fear the dissolution of the body. Everything now this, okay. Strange that one who is unattached to the things of this world and the next, who can discriminate between the transient and the timeless, yearns for freedom, should yet fear the dissolution of the body. Now this is not something which is prayers, this fear of death. Even for those opening system who see themselves beyond this, only kills this fear can be such a strong condition, such a strong condition.
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I saw incidentally that also here today, he is one of those who told me that fear of death is very strong. Killing emphasis, she said once to me, read it. He leaves it by knowing the Self, at least I know it, it continues, so there is no end. But if even this cannot be used as a crutch in that way, you see. Of course, you are discovering yourselves to be that which is beyond time and space, but you also finding yourself to be that which is prior to all attributes. Is that one concerned about even life? If the plane of existence is really something which makes a real difference to the Self? Finding the Self, you see yourself to be beyond life and death, beyond birth and death. You are the unborn, the undying.
It is this many times, it is a manifestation of this fear which comes, which can seem to be an obstacle to our remaining empty of concepts. And if you feel like this, you might not put it in this way, you might not express it in this way, but when you don't have a concept about yourself, it will feel something very shaky, as if you are dying. And the mind will immediately come and say, 'No, no, no, don't go there, that is trouble.' The master is saying, 'I will stay there and see if that is really trouble.' Stay here and see if that is really trouble, or is it just the mind saying it's trouble? What is that final drive to pick up our belief about atoms, to make a position about workers? This is an escape from this fear of the dissolution.
And we have actually come to this point, and in the play return, in the play return, we find that it is relentless, our looking for yourself. And staying here, we find that really there is no room for belief in your personal identity. And you will discover that everything that you are finding here is making a spiritual person or an enlightened person out of you to ask you to let go of all the concepts. Not becoming the good person, you're not becoming as me, you are becoming a better person. Okay, in the play, just pick up out of it ideas. Be the thing that this is not swiftness beyond this vehicle, beyond birth and death, as you allow yourself to remain empty right now.
Focus. The mind offers for you to take up the page. The position is based on past, position is based on future, position is based on wanting something, position is based on doings. The position is based on some sensation that you might be experiencing. What is the door for this 'me' actually right now? There is no such 'me.' You can really slow it down. Prior to the concept about yourself, what is it that you are?
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