Ashtavakra Gita | Chapter 13

Happiness Janaka said --- 1. The tranquillity which is born of the consciousness that there is nothing but the Self is rare even for one who wears but a loin-cloth. Therefore giving up renunciation and acceptance, I live happily. 2. There is trouble of the body here, trouble of the tongue there, and trouble of the mind elsewhere. Having renounced these, I life’s supreme goal I live happily. 3. Fully realizing that nothing whatsoever is really done by the Self, I do whatever presents itself to be done and live happily. 4. The yoginswho are attached to the body insist upon action or inaction. Owing to the absence of association and dissociation, I live happily. 5. No good or evil accrues to me by staying, going or sleeping. So, whether I stay, go or sleep, I live happily. 6. I do not lose by sleeping or gain by striving. So giving up thoughts of loss and elation, I live happily. 7. Observing again and again the inconstancy of pleasure and pain under different circumstances, I have renounced good and evil, and I live happily.