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ASHTA VAKRA SAMHITA</ignore>
<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.]</footnote>
<verse text="M">अष्टावक्र उवाच ।
मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषवत्त्यज ।
क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्भज ॥ २॥</verse>
<p text="G">अष्टावक्र: Ashtavakra उवाच said :
तात O child चेत् if (त्व you ) मुक्तिम् emancipation
इच्छसि wish (तर्हि then ) विषयान् the objects of the senses
विषवत् like poison त्यज shun क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं forgiveness,
sincerity, kindness, contentment and truth
like nectar भज seek.</p>
<p text="T">Ashtâvakra replied:
2. If you aspire after liberation, my
child, shun the objects<ref>1</ref> of the senses as
poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity<ref>2</ref>,
kindness, contentment and truth<ref>3</ref> as nectar.</p>
<footnote>[1 <italic>Objects etc.</italic>---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.</footnote>
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<ignore>2
ASHTA VAKRA SAMHITA</ignore>
<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.]</footnote>
<verse text="M">अष्टावक्र उवाच ।
मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषवत्त्यज ।
क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्भज ॥ २॥</verse>
<p text="G">अष्टावक्र: Ashtavakra उवाच said :
तात O child चेत् if (त्व you ) मुक्तिम् emancipation
इच्छसि wish (तर्हि then ) विषयान् the objects of the senses
विषवत् like poison त्यज shun क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं forgiveness,
sincerity, kindness, contentment and truth
like nectar भज seek.</p>
<p text="T">Ashtâvakra replied:
2. If you aspire after liberation, my
child, shun the objects<ref>1</ref> of the senses as
poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity<ref>2</ref>,
kindness, contentment and truth<ref>3</ref> as nectar.</p>
<footnote>[1 <italic>Objects etc.</italic>---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.</footnote>
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