tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11371242673822728442023-11-15T07:14:03.262-08:00Bitten by the Black Snake (Schoch)A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita by by Manuel SchochMichael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137124267382272844.post-52062388045163370832012-02-06T08:16:00.002-08:002021-09-09T11:25:37.150-07:00The First Sutra<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Cut this bondage with the sword of knowing I am awareness, and be happy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Just as a mirror exists in the image reflected in it, and also exists apart from the reflection, God is within and outside this body.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Just as the one all-pervading sky is the same within and outside a pot, the eternal everlasting Brahman is the same in all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All things arise, suffer, change, and pass away.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When you know this, nothing perturbs you, nothing hurts you, you become still.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sooner or later, fortune or misfortune may befall you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When you know this, you desire nothing, you grieve for nothing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Subduing the senses, you are happy; whatever you do brings joy or sorrow, life or death.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When you know this, you may act freely, without attachment.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What is there to accomplish?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All sorrow comes from fear, from nothing else.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When you know this, you become free of it, and desire melts away.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You become happy and still; the world with all its wonders is nothing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When you know this, desire melts away, for you are awareness itself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When you know in your heart that there is nothing, you are still.</span></div>
Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137124267382272844.post-30033851966466892072012-02-06T08:08:00.002-08:002021-09-09T11:22:14.258-07:00The Fifth Sutra<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Forget everything.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My child, you may read or discuss scriptures as much as you like, but until you forget everything, you will never live in your heart.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You are wise, you play and work and meditate, but still your mind desires that which is beyond everything.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Where all desires vanish, who is lazier than the master? He has trouble even blinking, but only he is happy, no one else.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Seeing this, neglecting that.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But when the mind stops setting one thing against another, it no longer craves pleasure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It no longer cares for wealth or religious duties or salvation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Craving the pleasures or the senses, you suffer attachment, disdaining them you learn detachment, but if you desire nothing and disdain nothing, neither attachment nor detachment binds you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you desire liberation but you still say mine, if you feel you are the body, you are not a wise man or a seeker; you are simply a man who suffers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Unless you forget everything, you will never live in your heart.</span></div>
Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137124267382272844.post-20088327373079303202012-02-06T08:06:00.003-08:002022-09-28T06:31:43.603-07:00The Sixth Sutra<span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">The clear space of awareness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are not your body, your body is not you.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are not the doer, you are not the enjoyer.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are pure awareness, the witness of all things.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are without expectation, free.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Wherever you go, be happy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Desire and aversion are of the mind, the mind is never yours.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are free of its turmoil.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are awareness itself, never changing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Wherever you go, be happy, for, see, the self is in all beings, and all beings are in the self.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Know you are free, free of I, free of mine; be happy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">In you the worlds arise like waves in the sea.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">It is true, you are awareness itself, so free yourself from the fever of the world.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">If the body lasted till the end of time, or vanished today, what would you win or lose?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are pure awareness, you are the endless sea in whom all the worlds, like waves, naturally rise and fall.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You have nothing to win, nothing to lose.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Child, you are pure awareness, nothing else.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You and the world are one, so who are you to think you can hold on to it or let it go, how could you?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are the clear space of awareness, pure and still, in whom there is no birth, no activity, no I.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are one and the same, you cannot change or die.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">The world only arises from ignorance, you alone are real.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">There is no one, not even God, separated from yourself.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are pure awareness; the world is an illusion, nothing more.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">When you understand this fully, desire falls away, you find peace, for indeed there is nothing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">In the ocean of being there is only one, there was and there will be only one.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are already fulfilled, how can you be bound or free?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Wherever you go, be happy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Never upset your mind with yes or no.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Be quiet, you are awareness itself.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Live in the happiness of your own nature, which is happiness itself.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">What is the use of thinking?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Once and for all, give up meditation, hold nothing in your mind.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You are the self, and you are free.</span></span></span>Michael Holshouserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270094801824803661noreply@blogger.com