ASHTAVAKRA GITA | you recognize that you are peace; you are pure.You are the ever pure consciousness. There was no liberation, because there was no bondage in the first place.

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                 🌿Chapter - 9🌿

         ~ Ego Dissolves In Love ~

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बोधमात्रोऽहमज्ञानादुपाधिः कल्पितो मया ।

एवं विमृशतो नित्यं निर्विकल्पे स्थितिर्गम ॥

न मे बन्धोऽस्ति मोक्षो वा भ्रान्तिः शान्ता निराश्रया ।

अहो मयि स्थितं विश्वं वस्तुतो न मयि स्थितम् ॥

न मे बन्धोऽस्ति मोक्षो वा भ्रान्तिः शान्ता निराश्रया ।

With just this in the consciousness, in one's awareness, all barriers fall down. All the illusions fall off. All imaginations in the mind drop off, and you recognize that you are peace; you are pure. चिद्रसोऽमलम् । You are the ever pure consciousness. न मे बन्धोऽस्ति मोक्षो वा । There was no liberation, because there was no bondage in the first place. Only if I was bound, would I have to thrive for liberation. Nothing has been binding you!

Several years ago, we walked in the hills of the Himalayas. One night we wanted to go to the top of a hill. We were in a mischievous mood. So we gathered a few people and quietly left the ashram which we were not supposed to do (Shankaracharya Nagar). There were guards all over. But we were very friendly with them and escaped by the back gate into the mountains. There was so much confidence that nothing would happen. If animals came, we'd apply Siddhi (power) and the animals would go away. We'd make friends with them. There could be lions, tigers and elephants in those forests. So we walked and walked in the night. Up one hill and then down another hill, up and down three hills. It must have been very late in the night, around 3 a.m. We were walking with a small torchlight. We just wanted to have an adventure. And at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m., somebody said, 'Stop! Don't go any further.' So we stopped. We were on a big cliff. A few steps further there was a edge - a fall of thousands of feet. It was so dark we could not see anything. We saw it all the next morning. So after somebody stopped us, we took another toad; maybe it was their property. We went another way-a very small walking path. On the way back, the other two people who were there with me, refused to come back on that road. It was after 6 am, daytime, and they saw it was a way you don't dare to walk on! In the night, we walked through and went to the small Shiva temple down below in the valley. I really had to convince the other two boys with me on the way back. I was responsible for the whole course there, including taking all the boys back to the course venue. But they refused to come back because path was so narrow. One had to walk through just a small strip. It was really frightening. It was a slippery, sandy road. If you slipped, you would fall down thousands of feet! Ignorance or darkness is also useful sometimes. न मे बन्धोऽस्ति मोक्षो वा ।Nothing was binding me. At night nothing was binding the people, they could simply walk down but the way back scared them. It is in the mind. It should have been the other way around. In the daytime people could have walked and at night they should have been scared of walking that path! But the reverse happened.

न मे बन्धोऽस्ति मोक्षो वा । There is no bondage in me, so where is the question of liberation? A devotee is very dear to God, but an enlightened is even more, because in a devotee there is a little gap. The devotee thinks he is separate from the Divine, but an enlightened doesn't see it that way. He sees no distance, no separation. It's a ज्ञानी and a भक्त़ As Krishna says, 'A devotee is very dear to me, but the ज्ञानी, an enlightened, even more because he is never away from even for a moment. He is not separate from me, he doesn't feel any gap.' नमो मह्यं । This is what Janaka was experiencing. The pinnacle of devotion, when he could say, 'I bow down to my Self.' These are not the words of an egoistic person. Janaka said, 'I bow down to my Self. You and I both dissolve together. They cannot dissolve one after another. For 'I' to be there, you have to be there. For you to be there, I have to be there. You and I dissolve. What exists is, what 'is'.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA 

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