Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Adhyāya 17
Adhyāya 17
Summary
Chapter 17 is Aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) on the fruit of knowledge and of practice, and on a state in which the mind is dropped. Twenty verses. The fruit is not a new experience stored beside the witness. It is the witness without the story of a practicer.
नेपालीमा
अध्याय १७ मा अष्टावक्रको भनाइ प्रस्तुत छ, ज्ञान र अभ्यासको फलबारे, र मन झरेको अवस्थाबारे। यसमा बीस श्लोक छन्। फल साक्षीको छेउमा थन्क्याइएको नयाँ अनुभव होइन। त्यो अभ्यास गर्ने मानिसको कथा बिनाको साक्षी हो।
- 17.1 Fruit of knowledge and of practice
- 17.2 The knower does not grieve
- 17.3 Objects do not gladden him
- 17.4 Unstained and without longing
- 17.5 Rarer than hunger or release
- 17.6 Nothing to leave or to take
- 17.7 No wish at the world's end
- 17.8 He sits at ease
- 17.9 Empty sight and vain effort
- 17.10 The state of the freed mind
- 17.11 Free, he shines everywhere
- 17.12 Free through every action
- 17.13 He neither praises nor blames
- 17.14 Unshaken by woman or death
- 17.15 The steady one sees no difference
- 17.16 No harm and no pity
- 17.17 Neither hater nor greedy
- 17.18 He does not know those thoughts
- 17.19 Doing, he does not do
- 17.20 Some state, the mind dropped