Ashtavakra gyaan 17,18,20,21,22,23

Day 17

If one can see beyond appearance, he will get firmly established in the reality and the divinity. It is all hollow and empty.

Day 18

Life is purity and inertia is impurity. Whatever is inert is impure amd whatever is dynamic or active is pure. When you are dull, you are impure. When you are alive, you are pure.

There are three places of action: body, mind and speech.

Day 20

Thoughts come and go in the mind. None of the thoughts are yours. They have their own wave.

There are two ways to drop the worries, one way is to be aware of the reality of the truth that everything is changing. And the other way is to be more centered. This is called dispassion.

Being unaware of the grace, love and the joy that the divine is pouring on us all the time, is the cause of worry.

You are the mind, the consciousness, you are the energy inside the body, you are neither the body, nor this body is yours.

Walk as though you are already enlightened, move like a cloud. Everything is done and finished. The whole journey is finished

Like all rivers flow into the seas and oceans, for the one who is satisfied, all desires, even before they arise, get fulfilled.


Day 21

This entire creation is amazing, just observe it, it is a bog amusement park.

Be in silence, weigh your words and spend them. Do not throw them about, and lose them for nothing.

Your mind has to be one-pointed to achieve things in the world. The mind becomes restless to achieve things, but to attain self realization your heart has to be one-pointed.


Day 22

Samadhi is silence in the mind through meditation, singing, dancing, intoxicated devotion, and through hundred percent effort in any activity.

Disturbance in the small mind vanish when they are in the assembly of the big mind.

The day when you feel bad is the day you should go out and ask what you can do for others.

Day 23

Your concept that things should be in a certain way, causes pain in your mind. Set concepts in the mind are the cause of distress. Living in the present moment is only possible when you can drop these concepts.

When you see a mistake and just a mistake, and not 'my' mistake, then there will not be any guilt. You will see mistake that needs rectification(whether it is yours or someone else's). Then your mind will become lighter.

Keep moving like a cloud.