Chapter 11 · Wisdom

Verse 11.1 · Ashtavakra

“One who has realized that existence, destruction and change are in the nature of things, easily finds repose, being unperturbed and free…”

bhāvābhāva-vikāraś ca svabhāvād iti niścayī…

Verse 11.2 · Ashtavakra

“Knowing for certain that Ishwara is the creator of all and that there is none else here, one becomes peaceful with all his desires set at…”

īśvaraḥ sarva-nirmātā nehānya iti niścayī…

Verse 11.3 · Ashtavakra

“Knowing for certain that adversity and prosperity come in their own time through fate, one is ever contented, has all his senses in…”

āpadaḥ sampadaḥ kāle daivād eveti niścayī…

Verse 11.4 · Ashtavakra

“Knowing for certain that happiness and misery, birth and death are due to fate, one comes to see that it is not possible to accomplish the…”

sukha-duḥkhe janma-mṛtyū daivād eveti niścayī…

Verse 11.5 · Ashtavakra

“One who has realized that care alone breeds misery in this world and nothing else, becomes free from it, and is happy, peaceful, and rid of…”

cintayā jāyate duḥkhaṃ nānyatheheti niścayī…

Verse 11.6 · Ashtavakra

“I am not the body nor is the body mine — I am Intelligence itself. One who has realized this for certain does not remember what has been…”

nāhaṃ deho na me deho bodho'ham iti niścayī…

Verse 11.7 · Ashtavakra

“It is verily I from Brahma down to the clump of grass — one who knows this for certain becomes free from the conflict of thought, pure and…”

ā-brahma-stamba-paryantam aham eveti niścayī…

Verse 11.8 · Ashtavakra

“One who knows for certain that this manifold and wonderful universe is nothing, becomes desireless and Pure Luminous Intelligence, and…”

nānāścaryam idaṃ viśvaṃ na kiñcid iti niścayī…