Ashtavakragita - Part II
I am borrowing the shlokas in Kannada language from sanskritdocuments.org
ಮುಕ್ತಾಭಿಮಾನೀ ಮುಕ್ತೋ ಹಿ ಬದ್ಧೋ ಬದ್ಧಾಭಿಮಾನ್ಯಪಿ .
ಕಿಂವದಂತೀಹ ಸತ್ಯೇಯಂ ಯಾ ಮತಿಃ ಸಾ ಗತಿರ್ಭವೇತ್ .. 1-11..
If one thinks
of oneself as free, one is free, and if one thinks of
oneself as bound, one is bound. Here this saying is
true, “Thinking makes it so.”ಆತ್ಮಾ ಸಾಕ್ಷೀ ವಿಭುಃ ಪೂರ್ಣ ಏಕೋ ಮುಕ್ತಶ್ಚಿದಕ್ರಿಯಃ . ಅಸಂಗೋ ನಿಃಸ್ಪೃಹಃ ಶಾಂತೋ ಭ್ರಮಾತ್ಸಂಸಾರವಾನಿವ .. 1-12..
Your real nature is as the one perfect, free, and actionless consciousness, the all-pervading witness — unattached to anything, desireless and at peace. It is from illusion that you seem to be involved in samsara.
ಕೂಟಸ್ಥಂ ಬೋಧಮದ್ವೈತಮಾತ್ಮಾನಂ ಪರಿಭಾವಯ .
ಆಭಾಸೋಽಹಂ ಭ್ರಮಂ ಮುಕ್ತ್ವಾ ಭಾವಂ ಬಾಹ್ಯಮಥಾಂತರಂ .. 1-13..
Meditate on yourself as motionless awareness, free from
any dualism, giving up the mistaken idea that you are just a derivative
consciousness or anything external or internal.ದೇಹಾಭಿಮಾನಪಾಶೇನ ಚಿರಂ ಬದ್ಧೋಽಸಿ ಪುತ್ರಕ .
ಬೋಧೋಽಹಂ ಜ್ಞಾನಖಡ್ಗೇನ ತನ್ನಿಕೃತ್ಯ ಸುಖೀ ಭವ .. 1-14..
You have
long been trapped in the snare of identification with
the body. Sever it with the knife of knowledge that
“I am awareness,” and be happy, my son. ನಿಃಸಂಗೋ ನಿಷ್ಕ್ರಿಯೋಽಸಿ ತ್ವಂ ಸ್ವಪ್ರಕಾಶೋ ನಿರಂಜನಃ .
ಅಯಮೇವ ಹಿ ತೇ ಬಂಧಃ ಸಮಾಧಿಮನುತಿಷ್ಠತಿ .. 1-15..
You are
really unbound and actionless, self-illuminating and
spotless already. The cause of your bondage is that
you are still resorting to stilling the mind. ತ್ವಯಾ ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಮಿದಂ ವಿಶ್ವಂ ತ್ವಯಿ ಪ್ರೋತಂ ಯಥಾರ್ಥತಃ .
ಶುದ್ಧಬುದ್ಧಸ್ವರೂಪಸ್ತ್ವಂ ಮಾ ಗಮಃ ಕ್ಷುದ್ರಚಿತ್ತತಾಂ .. 1-16..
All of this is really filled by you and strung out in you, for what you consist of is pure awareness — so don’t be small-minded. ನಿರಪೇಕ್ಷೋ ನಿರ್ವಿಕಾರೋ ನಿರ್ಭರಃ ಶೀತಲಾಶಯಃ .
ಅಗಾಧಬುದ್ಧಿರಕ್ಷುಬ್ಧೋ ಭವ ಚಿನ್ಮಾತ್ರವಾಸನಃ .. 1-17..
You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness, unperturbable: so hold to nothing but consciousness.
ಸಾಕಾರಮನೃತಂ ವಿದ್ಧಿ ನಿರಾಕಾರಂ ತು ನಿಶ್ಚಲಂ .
ಏತತ್ತತ್ತ್ವೋಪದೇಶೇನ ನ ಪುನರ್ಭವಸಂಭವಃ .. 1-18..
Recognise that the apparent is unreal, while the unmanifest is abiding. Through this initiation into truth you will escape falling into unreality again.
ಯಥೈವಾದರ್ಶಮಧ್ಯಸ್ಥೇ ರೂಪೇಽನ್ತಃ ಪರಿತಸ್ತು ಸಃ .
ತಥೈವಾಽಸ್ಮಿನ್ ಶರೀರೇಽನ್ತಃ ಪರಿತಃ ಪರಮೇಶ್ವರಃ .. 1-19
Just as a mirror exists everywhere both within and apart from its reflected images, so the Supreme Lord exists everywhere within and apart from this body.
ಏಕಂ ಸರ್ವಗತಂ ವ್ಯೋಮ ಬಹಿರಂತರ್ಯಥಾ ಘಟೇ .
ನಿತ್ಯಂ ನಿರಂತರಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ಸರ್ವಭೂತಗಣೇ ತಥಾ .. 1-20..
Just as one and the same all-pervading space exists within and without a jar, so the eternal, everlasting God exists in the totality of things.
