Ashtavakra said:

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent, and free of bonds
functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality. 18.21

There is neither joy nor sorrow for one who has transcended samsara.
With a peaceful mind he lives as if without a body. 18.22

He whose joy is in himself, and who is peaceful and pure within has
no desire for renunciation or sense of loss in anything. 18.23

For the man with a naturally empty mind, doing just as he pleases,
there is no such thing as pride or false humility, as there is
for the naturalman. 18.24

"This action was done by the body but not by me." The pure-natured
person thinking like this,is not acting even when acting. 18.25

He who acts without being able to say why, but is not thereby a fool,
he is one liberated while still alive, happy and blessed. He is happy
even in samsara. 18.26

He who has had enough of endless considerations and has
attained peace, does not think, know, hear, or see. 18.27

He who is beyond mental stillness and distraction does not desire
either liberation or its opposite. Recognising that things are just
constructions of the imagination, that great soul lives
as God here and now. 18.28

He who feels responsibility within, acts even when doing nothing,
but there is no sense of done or undone for the wise man who is
free from the sense of responsibility. 18.29

The mind of the liberated man is not upset or pleased. It shines
unmoving, desireless, and free from doubt. 18.30


[Translation by John Richards]