Ashtavakra said:

Let the world wave rise or subside according to its own nature in you,
the great ocean. It is no gain or loss to you. 15.11

My son, you consist of pure consciousness, and the world is not
separate from you. So who is to accept or reject it,
and how, and why? 15.12

How can there be either birth, karma, or responsibility in that one
unchanging, peaceful, unblemished, and infinite consciousness
which is you? 15.13

Whatever you see, it is you alone manifest in it. How can bracelets,
armlets and anklets be different from the gold they are made of? 15.14

Giving up such distinctions as "He is what I am," and "I am not that,"
recognise that "Everything is myself," and be without
distinction and happy. 15.15

It is through your ignorance that all this exists. In reality you alone exist.
Apart from you there is no one within or beyond samsara. 15.16

Knowing that all this is just an illusion, one becomes free of desire,
pure receptivity, and at peace, as if nothing existed. 15.17

Only one thing has existed, exists and will exist in the ocean of being.
You have no bondage or liberation. Live happily and fulfilled. 15.18

Being pure consciousness, do not disturb your mind with thoughts
of for and against. Be at peace and remain happily in yourself,
the essence ofjoy. 15.19

Give up meditation completely but don't let the mind hold on to
anything. You are free by nature, so what will you achieve by
forcing the mind? 15.20


[Translation by John Richards]