What Dissolution Is The Sage Speaking Of? (Ashtavakra Gita 5.1-5.4) - 1st November 2016

To see this, this surrender, this openness, is to enter the state of dissolution. What is dissolving? What dissolution is the sage speaking of? Is he speaking of the dissolution of the realm as we talk about it when the sleep state comes? No, he is talking about the dissolution of the false conditioning through the recognition of the truths, through the hearing of these verses. If there is openness in all of you, all that is false is being hammered out of you, is being squeezed out of you. This avidya, this ignorance, is dissolving; and the root of this ignorance is the idea that I am a person, I am a separate entity.

Sage has shared four insights which can help us look into the reality of who we are, and all these insights are actually your insights. It is your true voice who speaks these words. It is my feeling and also it is my blessing that openly looking and contemplating at any of these verses will bring such a clear recognition to you about who you are that the dissolution of the false is inevitable.

From the untruth to truth, from the darkness of ignorance to the light, from this illusory death to the recognition of our immortal self—this is the peace of dissolution. This is the core of what has been pointed here and by all the sages of the past.