Ashtavakra Gita Verses 16:7 To 16:8

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16.7 “As long as there is desire-- which is the absence of discrimination-- there will be attachment and non-attachment This is the cause of the world” 16.8 “Indulgence creates attachment Aversion creates abstinence Like a child, the sage is free of both and thus lives on as a child” Desire being a pull But why shoot the messenger Yearning to be full Becomes the quest of the seeker Everything vibration Incessant play in motion Consciousness choosing resonation With vibrations enabling elation Not desire then but indulgence therein Cause of stagnation For consciousness detached & sanguine Unfettered attention becomes meditation Flowing in the stream without resistance In the timeless now continuum Our presence in blissful innocence Is devoid of egoic residuum (21-August-2019) ~~~~~~~~~~ Verses 16.7 - 16.8 revisited on 07-December-2021 Desire, the cause of manifestation Aversion, the opposing force of repulsion Oscillation between the two, cause of suffering Unless we vaporise seeking God in a burning yearning The mindful eye cognises flickers of aversion and desire Head melds with heart, then God is all we aspire We entwine with universal consciousness In a continuum of blissful stillness Subject-object merge to become one Boundless love and light of the spiritual sun As indivisible God essence, our soul luminescent Transmutes in permanence into its native divine element Likening the world to a lucid dream, from which we awake Liberated while alive, the sage lives for love’s sake In but not of the world, like the vibrant void Moment to moment, by God buoyed

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