Chapter 5 · Four Ways to Self-Realization

Verse 5.1 · Ashtavakra

“You have no contact with anything whatsoever. Therefore, pure as you are, what do you want to renounce? Destroy the complex and even thus…”

na te saṅgo'sti kenāpi kiṃ śuddhas tyaktum icchasi…

Verse 5.2 · Ashtavakra

“The universe rises from you like bubbles from the sea. Thus, having known the Atman to be one, even thus enter into the state of…”

udeti bhavato viśvaṃ vāridher iva budbuda(ḥ)…

Verse 5.3 · Ashtavakra

“The universe, though manifest to the senses, does not truly exist in you who are pure — for it is unreal, like the snake in the rope. Thus…”

pratyakṣam apy avastutvād viśvaṃ nāsty amale tvayi…

Verse 5.4 · Ashtavakra

“You are perfect and equanimous in misery and happiness, in hope and despair, in life and death. Being thus, even thus do you attain the…”

samaduḥkhasukhaḥ pūrṇa āśānairāśyayoḥ samaḥ…