Aṣṭāvakra Saṃhitā
A Dialogue on Self-realization
Chapter 12, Verse 8
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Ashtavakra Gita 12.8 -
एवमेव कृतं येन स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ ।
एवमेव स्वभावो य: स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ
evam-eva kṛtaṃ yena sa kṛtārtho bhaved-asau .
evam-eva svabhāvo yaḥ sa kṛtārtho bhaved-asau .. 12-8..
He who has done like this, will be fulfilled at heart. He who has attained this kind of nature, is also equally fulfilled.
Commentary by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Every one has the same chance and scope for spiritual pursuit and fulfilment. No ceremonial or religious qualification is needed for searching and knowing the Truth.
It is a journey of knowledge, by knowledge, and for knowledge. Knowing more and more, deeply, fully and comprehensively. Intelligence is the only means for it. Initially ignorance deters intelligence. As seeker begins to know, ignorance begins to fall.
Introspection becomes deeper, more refined and wholesome. It is like fire blazing without smoke. It is all hot brilliance, to begin with, also later. In the end, it is full, comprehensive. The difference is only in measure, magnitude, not in quality or content.
One who has done the requisite jñāna-sādhanā, wisdom-pursuit, certainly feels fulfilled. He has nothing else to achieve.
One who is able to know the Self as himself, who also finds it to be luminous in full, becomes himself luminous, with no shade of darkness or shadow. For him, there is no sādhanā, meditation or samadhi. Will the Self need sādhanā? Will it have bondage? Will it need to strive for and attain liberation?
It will finally be a state bereft of bondage and freedom, joy and grief, birth and death, body and soul. Nay, bereft of all pairs of opposites. As bondage was felt and suffering followed, so it has fallen, and suffering fled. A state of absoluteness, of supreme Truth indeed!
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