Ashtavakra Gita Verses 3:07, 3:13, 3:14

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3.07 “Strange that knowing lust as an enemy of knowledge, one so weak and nearing death should still crave sensual pleasure” 3.13 “Why should a person of steady mind, who sees the nothingness of objects, prefer one thing to another?” 3.14 “He who is unattached, untouched by opposites, free of desire, experiences neither pleasure nor pain as events pass through” Ah! Reading verse three point seven Words of wisdom flowing from heaven The clue seen by very few Is that we may engage in pleasure if we renew Renew renew renew our free flowing attention Avoiding at all times indulgence & stagnation Moving on to verses thirteen & fourteen We see that it are weeds of ferality we need to wean Recognising that fear & desire imagery Are ego contaminants of delusion & memory Let events unfold and karma play its role What matters images moving as long as we are whole 19-August-2019 ~~~~~~~~~~ Verse revisited on 25-October-2021 Taking inspiration from the enlightened sage Even whilst lower and higher minds battles wage We have on the one hand animal cravings of a ghoul Whilst on the other, divine impulse that makes us feel whole Thus recognising our feeling of mind-body ferality We rotate sense polarity to reclaim serenity For to imbibe wisdom in definitiveness We must merge in totality with That oneness Whereupon though we know, there is oscillation Between equanimous meditation and turbid agitation In timeless time, boundaries between form and void blur Head and heart aligned, melds with love, as nodes within stir Responding to ego cravings as of body need, not greed Priority shifts to love and light as bliss throbs breed Whereupon though we renounce not any delight Each act is surrendered to God day and night By consciousness transmutation we become free Breezing nonchalantly through life in our each entrée In time stretched stillness moment by moment, love entwined Following the scent of love and playing out earth role as assigned

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