Ashtavakra Gita Verse 10.4
तृष्णामात्रात्मको बन्धस्तन्नाशो मोक्ष उच्यते। भवासंसक्तिमात्रेण प्राप्तितुष्टिर्मुहुर्मुहुः॥४॥
4. Desire is the soul of bondage and its destruction is said to be Liberation. By non-attachment to the world alone does one attain the constant bliss of the realisation of the Self.
Where desires have ended, thoughts have ceased, the mind is halted. Where there is no mind, there cannot be any ego, the experiencer of the world of plurality and its sorrows. Therefore, ‘dispassion’ (vairāgya) is the only sure and efficient way to reach the highest state of Bliss.
Mahopaniṣad expresses the same idea: ‘Sensuous desires alone are bondage; their renunciation is called Liberation.’
(bhogecchāmātrako bandhaḥ tattyāgo mokṣa ucyate ~Mahopaniṣad-5.97)
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