Ashtavakra Gita | Chapter 12

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Abiding in the Self Janaka said --- 1. I become intolerant first of physical action, then of extensive speech and then of thought. Thus therefore do I firmly abide. 2. Having no attachment for sound and other sense objects, and the Self not being an object of perception, my mind is freed from distraction and is one-pointed. Thus therefore do I firmly abide. 3. An effort has to be made for concentration when there is distraction of mind owing to superimposition, etc. Seeing this to be the rule, thus do I firmly abide. 4. Having nothing to accept and nothing to reject, and having neither joy nor sorrow, thus, sir, do I now firmly abide today. 5. A stage of life or no stage of life, meditation, control of mental functions –- finding that these cause distractions to me, thus do I firmly abide. 6. Abstention from action is as much the outcome of ignorance as the performance action. Knowing this truth fully well, thus do I firmly abide. 7. Thinking on the Unthinkable One, one only has recourse to a form of thought. Therefore giving up that thought, thus do I firmly abide. 8. Blessed is the one who has accomplished this. Blessed is he who is such by nature.

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