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Ashtavakra Gita: The Way to Live
From India, these kind words:
Keep it simple: perhaps this simple plan will help, complements of the Ashtavakra Gita:
1) Remain relaxed in Consciousness as Consciousness.
2) Remember you are not the 'doer' of any deed. Be happy.
3) The eternal and all pervading Consciousness is immanent in all beings.
4) The wise one witnesses the biological reactions- and the actions- in his own body as if they happen in any other body.
5) The wise one pursues not his preferences; he accepts whatever comes his way.
6) In any situation, he does whatever he fells like doing, knowing he is not the doer of his action, and accepting whatever result happens.
7) Abandoning of volition and intention means dispassion and then you can live anywhere in the world.
8) There is a total conviction that continuous change and ultimate destruction is the nature of all phenomena.
9) Worry may arise as a biological reaction but it does not turn into anxiety, nor does grief into suffering.
10) He is indifferent to what has been achieved and what remains to be achieved.
11) He becomes indifferent first to unnecessary physical action, then to small talk and gossip and finally, to conceptualizing.
12) Ignore affirmations and negations; reject nothing and covet nothing.
13) One who is attached to samara wants to renounce it; but, one who is not attached continues to remain in samsara and lives happily.
14) He who perceives the Brahman as something separate from himself may have to meditate on 'I am Brahman', but, one who does not consider himself as something separate has nothing to meditate on.
15) It is those with immature intellect who believe that Atman is pure and singular, and yet experience Atman phenomenally as an independent entity.
