Ashtavakra Gita Verse 3.4
श्रुत्वाऽपि शुद्धचैतन्यमात्मानं अतिसुन्दरम्। उपस्थेऽत्यन्तसंसक्तो मालिन्यमधिगच्छति॥४॥
4. Even after hearing that the Self is Pure Consciousness, supremely beautiful, how can one yet be deeply entangled in sensuous objects and thus become impure?
Even to hear and intellectually comprehend the nature of the Self as the beauty of beauties, the only Reality behind the universe is to drop all our meaningless fascination for the sense objects of the illusory world. Having woken up, who will pine over his beautiful beloved of his own dream? As a king, Janaka is seen in his royal chambers, surrounded by sense objects, music and dance, wealth and splendour. Aṣṭāvakara wonders how can a Man of Wisdom ever get deeply entangled in sense objects? They should generate disturbing agitations in the mind and make him impure. Lust creates an extreme body consciousness in the lusty. This must necessarily bring storms of agitations into the mind. Agitated mind veils the vision of the Self; this a sincere seeker becomes 'impure' in contact with sense objects.
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