Ashtavakra Gita Verse 13.7
सुखादिरूपानियमं भावेष्वालोक्य भूरिशः। शुभाशुभे विहायास्मादहमासे यथासुखम्॥७॥
7. Observing again and again, the fluctuations of the forms of pleasures and so on, in different circumstances, I have renounced good and evil and I live in true happiness.
An ordinary man is tempted to pursue good and avoid evil, because he is seeking his future happiness. The man of evil is pursuing diligently his evil ways of life only because he is convinced that he thereby can have his immediate happiness. In short, search for happiness is the spring of all activities, both good and evil.
A little deeper investigation into the happenings around us can make it vividly clear that the people who pursue the good are seen as often suffering as the evil minded men enjoy happily in life! So, it is an observed fact that there are fluctuations of pleasure and pain depending upon the changes in the external environments and the available circumstances around the individual.
Happiness and sorrow ultimately depend upon our own mental conditions. Transcending the mind and, therefore, renouncing both good and evil, Janaka admits, ‘I live in true happiness’ as the blissful Infinite Self.
End of Chapter-13
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