Ashtavakra Samhita /25

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ASHTA VAKRA SAMHITA
 
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<footnote>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.]
 
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<verse text="M">अष्टावक्र उवाच ।
 

मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषयस्वत्त्यज ।

क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्द्वभज ॥ २॥
 
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<p text="G">अष्टावक्र: Ashtavakra उवाच said :
 

तात 0O child चेत् ilf (त्व you ) मुक्तिम् emancipation

इच्छसि wish (तर्हि then ) विषयान् the objects of the senses

विषवत् like poison त्यज shun क्षमार्जवदचातापयातोषसत्यं forgiveness,

sincerity, kindness, contentment and truth

like nectar чभज seek.
 
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<p text="T">Ashtaâvakra replied:
 

2. If you aspire after liberation, my

child, shun the objects' of the senses as
<ref>1</ref> of the senses as
poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity³,
<ref>2</ref>,
kindness, contentment and truth'<ref>3</ref> as nectar.
 
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<footnote>[1 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
&quot;this
is mine", "&quot;, &quot;that is mine"&quot;, which spring from the

identification of Self with body, mind, etc.
 
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