Ashtavakra Gita Verse 5.1
अष्टावक्र उवाच
न ते सङ्गोऽस्ति केनापि किं शुद्धस्त्यक्तुमिच्छसि। सङ्घातविलयं कुर्वन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज॥१॥
1. You have no contact with anything whatsoever. Pure as you are, what do you want to renounce? Having dissolved the body-complex, enter into ‘laya’ – the state of dissolution.
As the Infinite Self, the very 'substratum' for the entire illusory world superimposed upon you, what is there in you, the Pure Self, to renounce? You have no contact with anything. The post is untouched by the ghost; what can the post renounce?
The body complex generally indicated in the Vedānta śāstra by the term 'saṅghāta’ is constituted of the sense organs, mind, intellect and ego. Even though in the Pure Self there is nothing other than Itself, we have found how, when there is non-apprehension of the Self, such misapprehensions do powerfully surge up.
At this moment we live identified with these and act and live as though we are nothing but the body complex in us. In the continuous confident self-assertion, ‘I am the infinite Self’, to dissolve away the matter aggregate about us, is to end the ego. ‘In this way enter ‘laya’ – the state of dissolution’, advises Aṣṭāvakra.
We are reminded of a similar assertion in Annapūrṇopaniṣad: ‘That which has neither the beginning nor an end, can have no cause for itself. Therein dissolve (laya) your mind-intellect equipment and remain ever undisturbed. Such an individual shall never have to ever return into misery and pain.’
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