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ASHTAVAKRA SAMHITA
 
अपि also दृश्यते is seen भोगमोक्ष निराका ङी not desirous of
enjoyment or liberation महाशयः the great-souled
one हि but विरल : rare.
 
5. One desirous of worldly enjoyment
and one desirous of liberation are both
found in this world. But rare is the great-
souled one who is not desirous of either
enjoyment or liberation.
 
[Who etc. Even the desire for liberation is
imperfection, for it implies the consciousness of bond-
age. Absolute Knowledge is not yet, so long as this
desire is there.]
 
धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु जीविते मरणे तथा ।
 
कस्याप्युदारचित्तस्य हेयोपादेयता न हि ॥६॥
 
कस्य अपि Certain
 
broad-minded
 
person हि indeed धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु in Dharma, Artha,
 
Kāma and Moksha तथा as well as जीविते in life मरणे
 
in death (a)
 
sense of the rejectable
 
and the acceptable 7 not (fis).
 
6. It is only some broad-minded
person who has neither attraction for, nor
aversion to, Dharma, Artha, Kâma and
Moksha as well as life and death.
 
[¹ Life etc.-A man of Self-knowledge is ever
conscious of himself as eternal. He has no body-idea.
Life and death are meaningless to him.]