Chapter-2, Verse 13

Ashtavakra Gita Verse 2.13

अहो अहं नमो मह्यं दक्षो नास्तीह मत्समः। असंस्पृश्य शरीरेण येन विश्वं चिरं धृतम्॥१३॥

13. O! Marvellous am I! Salutations to Myself! There is none so competent in this world as Me, who, am holding the universe eternally without touching it with My body. 

The efficiency and competency that we see among the living creatures are all expressions of life that enlivens the creatures; and this is the expression of the Self through the equipment, and as such the Supreme, conceived as God, is generally indicated as the omnipotent. 

Here Janaka points out the marvellous competency in the infinite Self to uphold this illusory universe of such dynamic possibilities and yet, there is no actual contact between the unreal world and the Real Self. This relation-less relationship is the only relation between the Real and unreal, between the true and the false. 

The post supports the ghost; yet, the post never touches the ghost. The dreamer suffers, struggles, endures and weeps in his sorrows and tragedies; yet I, the waker, is not affected by the tragedies of the dreamer in me. When we reflect upon this unique relationship, our reverence for the Self increases. 

The equipments of experience project their fields of experiences and create for themselves a world of joy and sorrow, success and failure, birth and death and in the midst of it all, unaffected by them, stands the Self. This Self am I; the world play derives its existence from Me, the Self. Indeed, I am the most worshipful, the eminently adorable factor in existence.