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ASHTA VAKRA SAMHITA
the four qualifications required of an aspirant for the
knowledge of Brahman,--the other three qualifica-
tions being (i) discrimination between the real and
the unreal, (ii) acquisition of the six cardinal moral
virtues-regulation of mind, regulation of the sense-
organs, etc., and (iii) intense longing for liberation.]
अष्टावक्र उवाच ।
मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषयस्यज ।
क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्द्वज ॥२॥
अष्टावक्र: Ashtavakra उवाच said :
तात 0 child चेत् il (त्व you ) मुक्तिम् emancipation
इच्छसि wish (तहि then ) विषयान् the objects of the senses
विषवत् like poison त्यज shun क्षमार्जवदचातापसत्यं forgiveness,
sincerity, kindness, contentment and truth
like nectar ч seek.
Ashtavakra replied:
2. If you aspire after liberation, my
child, shun the objects' of the senses as
poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity³,
kindness, contentment and truth' as nectar.
[Objects etc.-Attachment to worldly objects
is a great bar to spiritual progress and hence they
should be shunned as bitter poison. The implication
is that we should drive away all such ideas as "this
is mine", "that is mine", which spring from the
identification of Self with body, mind, etc.
ASHTA VAKRA SAMHITA
the four qualifications required of an aspirant for the
knowledge of Brahman,--the other three qualifica-
tions being (i) discrimination between the real and
the unreal, (ii) acquisition of the six cardinal moral
virtues-regulation of mind, regulation of the sense-
organs, etc., and (iii) intense longing for liberation.]
अष्टावक्र उवाच ।
मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषयस्यज ।
क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्द्वज ॥२॥
अष्टावक्र: Ashtavakra उवाच said :
तात 0 child चेत् il (त्व you ) मुक्तिम् emancipation
इच्छसि wish (तहि then ) विषयान् the objects of the senses
विषवत् like poison त्यज shun क्षमार्जवदचातापसत्यं forgiveness,
sincerity, kindness, contentment and truth
like nectar ч seek.
Ashtavakra replied:
2. If you aspire after liberation, my
child, shun the objects' of the senses as
poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity³,
kindness, contentment and truth' as nectar.
[Objects etc.-Attachment to worldly objects
is a great bar to spiritual progress and hence they
should be shunned as bitter poison. The implication
is that we should drive away all such ideas as "this
is mine", "that is mine", which spring from the
identification of Self with body, mind, etc.