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Ashtavakra Gita’ Is One Of The Advaitic Masterpieces. Without Mincing Matters It Comes Out With The Advaitic Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But Advaita Which Is The Truth. This Book Embodies Ashtavakra’s Teaching To King Janaka Which Vouched Him Self-knowledge Between The Time He Placed One Foot Upon The Stirrup Of His Horse And Lifted Himself To Place The Other Foot On The Other Stirrup.
However, As Can Be Seen From The Following Quote, Bhagavan Ramana Said That There Is No Time Involved At All In Self-knowledge.
When I Entered The Hall The Story Of How The Ashtavakra Gita Came To Be Taught Was Being Recounted In English For The Benefit Of The Above Raja And Other Visitors. After The Story Was Read Out, Bhagavan Said,
Because Brahma Jnana Is Not Something External, Which Is Somewhere Faraway Where You Can Go And Get It, You Cannot Say That It Will Take So Long Or So Short A Time To Attain It. It Is Always With You. . . . All That Is Necessary Is To Surrender Yourself Completely To The Guru, To Surrender Your Notion Of ‘i’ And ‘mine’ ….”
Of Course, That Is What King Janaka Did. He Surrendered His Notion Of ‘i’ And ‘mine’ To Sage Ashtavakra. Has Not Bhagavan Said That Surrender And Self-enquiry Are The Only Two Ways To Self-realisation?
Bhagavan Has Also Made Other References To This Great Book.
Sri Ramakrishna Persuaded Narendra To Read ‘ashtavakra Gita’ Which Had A Stupendous Impact On The Young Devotee Who Later Flowered Into Swami Vivekananda, The Doughty Advaitic Evangelist.
The Present Upload Of This Gita Is In Sanskrit, English And Tamil In Sound And Script. The Sanskrit Script Is In Bhagavan’s Own Handwriting Cut Out From An Archival Publication Of The Ashram.
The Ashtavakra Gita, Or The Ashtavakra Samhita As It Is Sometimes Called, Is A Very Ancient Sanskrit Text. Nothing Seems To Be Known About The Author, Though Tradition Ascribes It To The Sage Ashtavakra; Hence The Name.
There Is Little Doubt Though That It Is Very Old, Probably Dating Back To The Days Of The Classic Vedanta Period. The Sanskrit Style And The Doctrine Expressed Would Seem To Warrant This Assessment.
The Work Was Known, Appreciated, And Quoted By Ramakrishna And His Disciple Vivekananda, As Well As By Ramana Maharshi, While Radhakrishnan Always Refers To It With Great Respect. Apart From That The Work Speaks For Itself.
It Presents The Traditional Teachings Of Advaita Vedanta With A Clarity And Power Very Rarely Matched.
The Translation Here Is By John Richards, And Is Presented To The Public Domain With His Affection. The Work Has Been A Constant Inspiration In His Life For Many Years. May It Be So For Many Others.
If You Are Seeking Liberation, My Son, Avoid The Objects Of The Senses Like Poison And Cultivate Tolerance, Sincerity, Compassion, Contentment, And Truthfulness As The Antidote. 1.2
You Do Not Consist Of Any Of The Elements — Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Or Even Ether. To Be Liberated, Know Yourself As Consisting Of Consciousness, The Witness Of These. 1.3
If Only You Will Remain Resting In Consciousness, Seeing Yourself As Distinct From The Body, Then Even Now You Will Become Happy, Peaceful And Free From Bonds. 1.4
You Do Not Belong To The Brahmin Or Any Other Caste, You Are Not At Any Stage, Nor Are You Anything That The Eye Can See. You Are Unattached And Formless, The Witness Of Everything — So Be Happy. 1.5
Righteousness And Unrighteousness, Pleasure And Pain Are Purely Of The Mind And Are No Concern Of Yours. You Are Neither The Doer Nor The Reaper Of The Consequences, So You Are Always Free. 1.6
You Are The One Witness Of Everything And Are Always Completely Free. The Cause Of Your Bondage Is That You See The Witness As Something Other Than This. 1.7
Since You Have Been Bitten By The Black Snake, The Opinion About Yourself That “i Am The Doer,” Drink The Antidote Of Faith In The Fact That “i Am Not The Doer,” And Be Happy. 1.8
Burn Down The Forest Of Ignorance With The Fire Of The Understanding That “i Am The One Pure Awareness,” And Be Happy And Free From Distress. 1.9
That In Which All This — Imagined Like The Snake In A Rope — Appears: That Joy, Supreme Joy, And Awareness Is What You Are, So Be Happy. 1.10
If One Thinks Of Oneself As Free, One Is Free, And If One Thinks Of Oneself As Bound, One Is Bound. Here This Saying Is True, “thinking Makes It So.” 1.11
Your Real Nature Is As The One Perfect, Free, And Actionless Consciousness, The All-pervading Witness — Unattached To Anything, Desireless And At Peace. It Is From Illusion That You Seem To Be Involved In Samsara. 1.12
Meditate On Yourself As Motionless Awareness, Free From Any Dualism, Giving Up The Mistaken Idea That You Are Just A Derivative Consciousness Or Anything External Or Internal. 1.13
You Have Long Been Trapped In The Snare Of Identification With The Body. Sever It With The Knife Of Knowledge That “i Am Awareness,” And Be Happy, My Son. 1.14
You Are Really Unbound And Actionless, Self-illuminating And Spotless Already. The Cause Of Your Bondage Is That You Are Still Resorting To Stilling The Mind. 1.15
All Of This Is Really Filled By You And Strung Out In You, For What You Consist Of Is Pure Awareness — So Don’t Be Small-minded. 1.16
You Are Unconditioned And Changeless, Formless And Immovable, Unfathomable Awareness, Unperturbable: So Hold To Nothing But Consciousness. 1.17
Recognise That The Apparent Is Unreal, While The Unmanifest Is Abiding. Through This Initiation Into Truth You Will Escape Falling Into Unreality Again. 1.18
Just As A Mirror Exists Everywhere Both Within And Apart From Its Reflected Images, So The Supreme Lord Exists Everywhere Within And Apart From This Body. 1.19
Just As One And The Same All-pervading Space Exists Within And Without A Jar, So The Eternal, Everlasting God Exists In The Totality Of Things. 1.20.