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)
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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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