Friday, January 30, 2026

Astavakra said


"Distaste for sense-objects is liberation; passion for sense-objects is bondage. Such indeed is Knowledge. Now you do as you please."( Astavakra Gita )"The arrogant-ego, seeking its satisfaction, hungers for sense-gratifications and its entire attention gets dissipated into the world of sense-objects. This is the State-of-bondage.Having explained thus, Astavakra gives the student full freedom to plan his own life and live his days in complete freedom, as he likes. 

Those who have yet Vasana-s to fulfil, they must continue living in the sense-world for exhausting them. There is no other way. Those in whom the vigor of Vasana-s has calmed down, in them there is a natural sense of growing distaste towards sense-objects. Force and compulsion can do nothing in this great path of Self-Rediscovery. It is an evolution, and not a revolution. As such, all Masters, after their advice, leave the student to plan out his life, according to his own inner impulses." ( Swami Chinmayananda )




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