Ashtavakr Samhita : 6
References from : Astavakra Samhita :
Commentator Swami Nityaswarupananda ji, Advaita Ashram, Kolkata.
Edition October 2010.
Important explanations as quoted in : Ch. 4 :
Sh. 1 & 4.
The joys and sorrows of the world are like play to a man of
realization who is un-attached to the world and is not affected by it.
Men who, through ignorance, are attached to the world and
buffeted by its joys and miseries. They cannot look upon the world as
play.
The man of Supreme realization is beyond scriptural
injunctions. He is quite indifferent to all the prescribed laws of conduct. For
these are all formulated for ignorant minds. That, however does not mean moral
anarchy. The man of realization does not stoop to evil actions as all evil propensities
( संस्कार) are annihilated before the highest state of
realization it reached. An expert dancer never takes wrong step.
One who knows himself (Self realized) takes things playfully. He
may be seen attached to things at one moment, but the next moment he may
totally forget it.
The man of Self-knowledge acts merely under the impulsion of the
effects of his actions in the past life.(प्रारब्ध)
Ch. 7 : Sh. 1 :
When the wind rises on the ocean, it tosses a ship hither and
thither and even sends it down. But the ocean is not affected by the movements
of ship.
Similarly the Universe, which rests on the reality of self is
ever changing under the impulsion of its Inherent laws. But the changing world does
not affect the Self in the least.
The self is all pervasive and infinite. It cannot therefore be
contained by finite objects, such as body and mind.
When the world appears, names and form are superimposed on the
Reality of self, and when it disappears, name and form vanish. The
reality is ever same.
With Courtesy and Pranam to SWAMI Ji…..
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