Ashtavakra Gita Verses 17:17 To 17:18

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17.17 “The liberated one neither avoids experience nor craves it He enjoys what comes and what does not” 17.18 “The sage is not conflicted by states of stillness and thought His mind is empty His home is the Absolute” Emptiness being simply stilling movement Of all fickle and transient engagement By exiting therein stagnation The cravings borne of ego precipitation Emptiness then being the hollowing out contamination Resident within blocking flow of blissful elation Or we may say our innate nature being flowing renewal If not empty within joy & bliss are not felt as continual So the mind body construct employed only as of need The sage is free from both fear as well as greed Free flowing through all happenings in the time continuum Unaffected being at the fulcrum of the oscillating pendulum (22-August-2019) ~~~~~~~~~~~ Verses 17.7 to 17.8 revisited on 12-December-2021 distilling attention till no attribute remains an orientation of celebration there then within, no dark stains that that comes and goes unreal save throb of the bliss thunder renewing rapturous appeal rising from down under satchitananda the truth known when we come undone melding with the current forsooth mind-body, soul and spirit become one nodes within stir and boundaries blur between form and formlessness we concur to energy transfer entwined with oneness embrace and release offerings to our aliveness flowing like the morning breeze blissful and tranquil is consciousness

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