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Shri Prashant

Ashtavakra Gita Excerpts from the article :

Only a Godless mind will be petty

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Ashtavakra Gita : An Introduction

Ashtavakra Gita (Songs of Sage Ashtavakra) is a classical Advaita Vedanta scripture. The Gita consists of subtle spiritual truth being illustrated in the form of dialogue between Sage Ashtavakra and Janak, the king-seer.

Without mincing matters it comes out with the Advaitic truth, the whole truth and nothing but Advaita which is the Truth. The Gita insists on complete unreality of external world and absolute oneness of existence.

*References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtavakra_Gita

www.sriramanamaharshi.org

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यदि िेहं पथृक् कृत्य दिदि दिश्राम्य दिष्ठदि। अधुनिै िुखी शान्िो बन्धमुक्तो भदिष्यदि॥

Shri Prashant on

Ashtavakra Gita ( Chapter – 1, Verse – 4 )

If you detach yourself from the body and rest in consciousness, you will

become content, peaceful and free from bondage immediately.

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“We remember the body all the time,

we remember so many other things all the time,

thoughts of the world occupy the mind all the time,

memory is active all the time,

and all these need to be remembered because

something important has been forgotten.”

Why do I remember the body all the time?

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Is being body-identified a problem?

“Body-identification in itself is not a problem,

it is just a symptom. When the Truth really shines

only then there is the urge to beyond the little,

into the vast, and then the body-identification drops by itself,

then you would not even talk about the body,

then you would not ask that why am I body identified,

because then the body becomes irrelevant.”

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Why does the mind dwell in petty?

“All our littleness arises from our distance from the Immense. The more you are distant from that Immense,

the more petty you will be.

Whenever you meet a petty mind,

a mind that is occupied with all the little trivial matters,

know one thing for sure- this man is totally devoid of spirituality.

This is a Godless man.

Vastness comes only with the Vast.

Vastness comes only in proximity with the Vast.”

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How can I drop being identified to the body?

“Become identified with the Total

and your identification with the partial shall stop.

You need some identity,

give yourself the most complete identity possible.

That is the reason why we say, ‘I am Brahm (God)’,

that is the most complete identity that can be given to you.

Now after saying, ‘I alone am’,

there is no point saying, ‘I am the body.’

When I am the Total,

what is the point in saying that I am the partial?” To read the complete article, click Only a Godless mind will be petty

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Does ‘I am Brahm (God)’ mean I’m not the body?

“‘I am Brahm’does not mean that I am no more the body.

It means that I am much more than the body.

For that there needs to be an immensity, there needs to be a

movement away from your littleness, away from your

confinement, away from your pettiness, from your boundaries

and from all the divisions that the thought creates in the mind.

So as the expanse of your mind increases, you will find that

you are becoming less and less body- identified.” To read the complete article, click Only a Godless mind will be petty

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How can I drop body-identification ?

“It can only happen indirectly,

you cannot directly attack your body-identification.

You must rather work on the mind,

the mind and its tendency to avoid the Immense,

the mind and its tendency to seek protection and security.

The more you challenge your fears, the more you will find that

your association with the body is reducing.

And that will require faith,

without faith you cannot face your fears.”

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Are all our fears really false?

Do you know what is common

in each of these stories? ‘That I will lose something.’

Your fears arise from the sense of who you are,

because you do not know who you are, because your

assumptions regarding yourself are wrong,

that is why each of these stories is wrong.”

“Every fear is a story.

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How to face the fears? “Every fear rests on assumptions,

every fear is a complete image,

a complete imagined sequence in time.

That is what fear is.

A complete sequence spread out in space and time.

Test it a little.

Test whether your assumptions are valid at all”

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Testing the fears makes me more fearful.

What should I do?

“Let little bit of the bad happen and see whether it is actually

that kind of a catastrophe that you imagined it to be.

It’s not, it’s not.

You are greatly ignorant of your own strength.

There is one thing that we are so oblivious of,

that how strong we are.

You have it in you to face all these things.

But in imagination all the fears appear magnified.”

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