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Sanskrit text with EnglishTransliteration & Translation

(Translator: John Richards)

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 ............................................................................................... 4Chapter 2 ............................................................................................. 13Chapter 3 ............................................................................................. 24Chapter 4 ............................................................................................. 31Chapter 5 ............................................................................................. 34Chapter 6 ............................................................................................. 36

Chapter 7 ............................................................................................. 38

Chapter 8 ............................................................................................. 41Chapter 9 ............................................................................................. 43Chapter 10 ........................................................................................... 47Chapter 11 ........................................................................................... 51Chapter 12 ........................................................................................... 55Chapter 13 ........................................................................................... 59Chapter 14 ........................................................................................... 63Chapter 15 ........................................................................................... 65

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Chapter 16 ........................................................................................... 74Chapter 17 ........................................................................................... 79Chapter 18 ........................................................................................... 88Chapter 19 ......................................................................................... 131Chapter 20 ......................................................................................... 135

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Chapter 1

- janaka uvca

kathajnamavpnoti kathamuktirbhaviyati

vairgyaca kathaprptaetad brhi mama prabho

Janaka:How is knowledge to be acquired? How is liberation tobe attained? And how is dispassion to be reached? Tell me this,

sir.

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avakra uvca

muktiicchasi cettta viayn viavattyaja

kamrjavadaytoasatyapyavad bhaja

Ashtavakra: If you are seeking liberation, my son, shun theobjects of the senses like poison. Practise tolerance, sincerity,

compassion, contentment and truthfulness like nectar.

-na pthv na jalangnirna vyurdyaurna v bhavn

eskiamtmnacidrpaviddhi muktaye 1.3

You do not consist of the elements - earth, water, fire, air or even

ether. To be liberated, know yourself as consisting of

consciousness, the witness of these.

-yadi dehapthak ktya citi virmya tihasi

adhunaiva sukh nto bandhamukto bhaviyasi

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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

-na tvaviprdiko varo nram nkagocara

asago'si nirkro vivask sukh bhava

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.

-dharmdharmau sukhadukhamnasni na te vibho

na kartsi na bhoktsi mukta evsi sarvad

Righteousness and unrighteousness, pleasure and pain are

purely of the mind and are no concern of yours. You are neither

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the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, so you are always

free.

-eko drasi sarvasya muktapryo'si sarvad

ayameva hi te bandho drarapayastaram

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.

-ahakartetyahamnamahkhidaita

nha

karteti vivsmta

ptv sukh bhava

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.

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-eko viuddhabodho'haiti nicayavahnin

prajvlyjnagahanavtaokasukh bhava

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.

-yatra vivamidabhti kalpitarajjusarpavat

nandaparamnandasa bodhastvasukhabhava

That in which all this appears - imagined like the snake in a rope,that joy, supreme joy and awareness is what you are, so be

happy.

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muktbhimn mukto hi baddho baddhbhimnyapi

kivadantha satyeyay matis gatirbhavet

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".

-tm sk vibhupra eko muktacidakriya

asago nisphanto bhramtsasravniva

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.

-kasthabodhamadvaitamtmnaparibhvaya

bhso'habhramamuktv bhvabhyamathntaram

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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.

-dehbhimnapena cirabaddho'si putraka

bodho'hajnakhagena taniktya sukh Bhava

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.

-

ni

sa

go nikriyo'si tva

svaprako nira

jana

ayameva hi te bandhasamdhimanutihati

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.

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- tvay vyptamidavivatvayi protayathrthata

uddhabuddhasvarpastvam gamakudracittatm

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.

-nirapeko nirvikro nirbharatalaya

agdhabuddhirakubdho bhava cinmtravsanaYou are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable,

unfathomable awareness and unperturbable, so hold to nothing

but consciousness.

-skramantaviddhi nirkratu nicalam

etattattvopadeena na punarbhavasabhava

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Recognise that the apparent is unreal, while the unmanifest is

abiding. Through this initiation into truth you will escape falling

into unreality again.

- yathaivdaramadhyasthe rpe'ntaparitastu sa

tathaiv'smin arre'ntaparitaparamevaraJust 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.

-ekasarvagatavyoma bahirantaryath ghae

nityanirantarabrahma sarvabhtagae tath

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.

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Chapter 2

-janaka uvca

aho nirajananto bodho'hapraktepara

etvantamahaklamohenaiva viabita

Janaka:Truly I am spotless and at peace, the awareness beyondnatural causality. All this time I have been afflicted by delusion.

-yath prakaymyeko dehamenatath jagat

ato mama jagatsarvamathav na ca kicana

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As I alone give light to this body, so I do to the world, As a result

the whole world is mine, or alternatively nothing is.

- sa arramaho vivaparityajya maydhun

kutacit k