Ashtavakra said:
There are no
rules, dispassion, renunciation, or meditation for one
who is pure receptivity by nature, and admits no knowable
form of being. 18.71
For him who
shines with the radiance of Infinity and is not subject
to natural causality there is neither bondage, liberation,
pleasure, nor pain. 18.72
Pure
illusion reigns in samsara which will continue until self-realisation,
but the enlightened man lives in the beauty of freedom from me
and mine, from the sense of responsibility and from
any attachment. 18.73
For the seer
who knows himself as imperishable and beyond pain
there is neither knowledge, a world, nor the sense that
I am the body or the body mine. 18.74
No sooner
does a man of low intelligence give up activities
like the elimination of thought than he falls into
mind racing and chatter. 18.75
A fool does
not get rid of his stupidity even on hearing the truth.
He may appear outwardly free from imaginations, but inside
he is still hankering after the senses. 18.76
Though in
the eyes of the world he is active, the man who has
shed action through knowledge finds no means of doing or
speaking anything. 18.77
For the wise
man who is always unchanging and fearless there is
neither darkness nor light nor destruction nor anything. 18.78
There is
neither fortitude, prudence, nor courage for the yogi
whose nature is beyond description and free of individuality. 18.79
There is
neither heaven nor hell nor even liberation during life.
In a nutshell, in the sight of the seer nothing exists at all. 18.80
[Translation by John Richards]