Aṣṭāvakra Saṃhitā
A Dialogue on Self-realization
Chapter 18, Verse 67
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Ashtavakra Gita 18.67 -
स जयत्यर्थसंन्यासी पूर्णस्वरसविग्रह: ।
अकृत्रिमोऽनवच्छिन्ने समाधिर्यस्य वर्तते
sa jayaty-artha-sannyāsī pūrṇa-svarasa-vigrahaḥ .
akṛtrimo’navacchinne samādhir-yasya vartate .. 18-67..
He indeed sparkles gloriously, who has eschewed all desires for objects, who is the embodiment of fullness and inner bliss, who is absorbed naturally in the undimmed splendour of the Self.
Commentary by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
As the Self is invisible and also within one’s own body, any extent of description and definition will not be adequate to explain how unique, glorious and supreme is its realization. Equally indefinable is the wise who has realized his Self. He dissuades all other persuasions as meaningless and purposeless in bestowing unbroken delight and fulfilment to human life, wherein viveka, discrimination, has the supreme role to play.
Our body alone is mortal. But the presence that animates and activates the body is immortal. The ‘I’ everyone repeatedly says denotes this inner immortal presence. Nothing prevents one from turning within and experiencing this ‘I’ in its fullness to be blessed for ever. In fact, the effort for gaining external objects, which our senses comprehend and identify, is quite cumbersome. It does not lead to any satisfactory outcome, as all objects are transitory and only tire the senses out.
Ashtavakra Maharshi makes it clear that the wise one who realizes the Self becomes the embodiment of fullness and blissfulness. He is the one who has really left his clinging for sensory objects. What he has gained instead is inestimably great, glorious and supreme.
He is absorbed naturally in the inner depths of unconditioned bliss of the Self, which exists on its own essence.
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