Ashtavakra said:

Praise be to That by the awareness of which delusion itself becomes
dream-like, to that which is pure happiness, peace, and light. 18.1

One may get all sorts of pleasure by the acquisition of various
objects of enjoyment, but one cannot be happy except by the
renunciation of everything. 18.2

How can there be happiness, for one who has been burnt inside
by the blistering sun of the pain of thinking that there are things
that still need doing, without the rain of the nectar of peace? 18.3

This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is
no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish
being from nonbeing. 18.4

The realm of one's self is not far away, nor can it be achieved by the
addition of limitations to its nature. It is unimaginable, effortless,
unchanging, and spotless. 18.5

By the simple elimination of delusion and the recognition of one's
true nature, those whose vision is unclouded live free from sorrow. 18.6

Knowing everything as just imagination, and himself as eternally free,
how should the wise man behave like a fool? 18.7

Knowing himself to be God, and being and non-being just imagination,
what should the man free from desire learn, say, or do? 18.8

Considerations like "I am this" or "I am not this" are finished for the
yogi who has gone silent realising "Everything is myself." 18.9

For the yogi who has found peace, there is no distraction or
one-pointedness, no higher knowledge or ignorance,
no pleasure and no pain. 18.10


[Translation by John Richards]