Wisdom of the Masters

Ashtavakra Gita - Part A - Ramana Maharshi - Advaita - Vedanta

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Jan 27, 2022
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ADVICE

Avoid Sense Objects And Cultivate Inner Antidotes

  • Avoid sensory objects like poison and cultivate tolerance, sincerity, compassion, contentment, and truthfulness as antidotes to bondage.
  • Ashtavakra instructs direct practices to remove attachment, listing specific virtues to adopt instead of clinging to sense objects.
INSIGHT

You Are The Witness Not The Doer

  • Realize you are pure consciousness, the witness distinct from body and mind, and resting as that awareness dissolves bonds now.
  • The text repeatedly asserts the self is the formless witness, not the doer, making bondage an error of misidentification.
ADVICE

Use Knowledge Like A Knife To Sever Identification

  • Burn ignorance with the fire of understanding by repeatedly affirming I am pure awareness, not the body or doer.
  • The teaching prescribes knowledge-based severance: use discriminating insight like a knife to cut identification with the body.
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