ISBN: 9788188071289    Publisher: Zen Publications Year of publishing: 2012     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 80        Language: English

Ashtavakra Says:
• You are not the body which is composed of the five elements. You are
that Consciousness which has provided the inert body with the sentience
that makes the senses function I regard to their objects. It is
sentience which makes the psychosomatic apparatus work as a unit.
• Anticipating the query from his intelligent disciple, the guru tells
him further, "You" are not the physical organism but Consciousness which
works not as someone in charge of the operations of the physical
organism but merely as the witness of the operations.



• You have wrongly identified yourself as the individual, as the doer
of all actions that take place through the physical organism, and
thereby unnecessarily assume the responsibility for the actions which
take place, and thus assume the bondage from which you are seeking
liberation.



• The witness cannot be the doer, and you are therefore not the doer.
With this understanding, you can detach yourself from the wrong
identification with the body. And when you do this, you will
automatically assume your true position as the witness and remain
relaxed (because there is not the tension of responsibility for the
actions) in consciousness, as consciousness.



• The state of being disidentified from the body is the state of
witnessing (when the individual "me" is not present). And this state of
detached witnessing is indeed the state of liberation. This is what the
Self-realized guru means when he says that when you remain relaxed in
Consciousness (without identification with the body), the state of
liberation is sudden and immediate.



The words "remain relaxed in Consciousness" from the very basis of the Ashtavakra teaching.

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