Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11.7
आब्रह्मस्तम्बपर्यन्तमहमेवेति निश्चयी। निर्विकल्पः शुचिः शान्तः प्राप्ताप्राप्तविनिर्वृतः॥७॥
7. ‘I am indeed in everything from the Creator down to a tuft of grass’ – he who has understood this with certitude becomes free from all thought oscillations; pure and serene, he withdraws from what is attained and what is not attained.
Limited mind alone gets agitated. The more the limitations, the greater the agitations. The mind completely relinquished and free from all identifications is the mind that has no agitations and stilled mind is the supreme Self.
When the limited identifications of the ego have been transcended and with certainty when the seeker has understood, ‘I am indeed the all-pervading essence behind all names and forms’, he is beyond his mind and, therefore, no more can the oscillations of the mind (vikalpa) disturb him.
The term ‘nirvikalpa’, as applied to samādhi is defined by Bhartṛhari as: ‘An exclusive concentration upon the one entity, without distinct and separate Consciousness of the Knower, the Known and Knowledge and even without Self-Consciousness’.
It is strange, but true, that this familiar term ‘nirvikalpa’ taken up and popularised by Patañjali, is not at all used either in any of the principal Upaniṣads nor in the Bhagavad-Gītā. However, Aṣṭāvakra freely makes use of it.
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