Chapter-12, Verse 7

Ashtavakra Gita Verse 12.7

अचिन्त्यं चिन्त्यमानोऽपि चिन्तारूपं भजत्यसौ। त्यक्त्वा तद्भावनं तस्मादेवमेवाहमास्थितः॥७॥

7. Thinking on the Unthinkable One, one resorts only to a form of thought. Giving up that thought too, I, abide in myself. 

Therefore, the Self and its light of Consciousness that enlivens our life in our bosom is declared by the great Riṣis as unthinkable. 

(sūkṣmatvāttadavijñeyam  ~Bhagavad-Gītā-13.15) 

Here Janak is conveying that the Ultimate One can only be experienced, not thought about or discussed. At the highest level of thought we think about Him. When we transcend even that thought and move into ultimate thoughtlessness, we move into permanently Abiding in Him! 

To reflect and contemplate upon this Self, which is unthinkable, is itself again a play of our thoughts. In the early stages of sādhanā this method is extremely valid, as all other restlessness of the intellect gets quietened by the thought of the unthinkable! 

But to one who has already exploded into the higher plane of Consciousness and who is living vividly the experience of the infinite Self, for him to sit in meditation, to contemplate upon the unthinkable is to come out of the thoughtless state into the restlessness of thought! ‘Therefore’, says Janaka, ‘giving up that thought, do I, indeed abide in myself’.