Ashtavakra Gita Verse 8.4
यदा नाहं तदा मोक्षो यदाहं बन्धनं तदा। मत्वेति हेलया किञ्चित् मा गृहाण विमुञ्च मा॥४॥
4. When there is no ego-‘I’ there is ‘freedom’, when there is ego-‘I’ there is ‘bondage’. Knowing thus, stop from accepting or rejecting anything playfully.
When there is no “me” that is freedom, and when there is “me” there is bondage.
In this closing verse of this chapter, Aṣṭāvakra warns the student that he should not even playfully – even as a joke – accept any perception. Even to reject a perception is to crystallise the ego and recognise the illusory 'perceiver' within!
Be a detached witness of the things and happenings around and look at them with the eyes of steady wisdom; where there is no ‘I’, the perceiver, that is the state of freedom; and wherever there is I, the perceiver, expressing, that is the state of bondage.
End of Chapter-8
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