VivekaVani

1. Cultivate indifference to everything, having given up kama (desire) which is the enemy, artha (worldly prosperity) which is attended with mischief, and dharma(performance of good works) which is the cause of these two.

2. Look upon friends, lands, wealth, houses, wives, presents and such other marks of good fortune, as a dream or a juggler’s show, lasting only a few days.

3. Know that wherever there is desire there is the world. Betaking yourself to firm non-attachment, go beyond desire and be happy.

4. Bondage consists only in desire, and the destruction of desire is said to be liberation. Only by non-attachment to the world does one attain the constant joy of the realization of the Self.

5. You are One, Pure Intelligence. The universe is non-intelligent and unreal. Ignorance also is no real entity. What can you yet desire to know?

6. Kingdoms, sons, wives, bodies and pleasures have been lost to you birth after birth, even though you were attached to them.

7. Enough of prosperity, desires, and pious deed. The mind did not find repose in these in the dreary forest of the world.

8. For how many births have you not done hard and painful work with body, with mind and with speech! Therefore cease at least today.

1. Duties done and not done, as well as the pairs of opposites –- when do they cease and for whom? Knowing thus, be desireless and intent on renunciation through complete indifference to the world.

2. Rare indeed, my child, is that blessed person whose desire for life, enjoyment, and learning have been extinguished by observing the ways of men.

3. The wise man becomes calm by realizing that all verily is vitiated by the threefold misery and is transient, unsubstantial, and contemptible, and should be rejected.

4. What is that time or that age in which the pairs of opposites do not exist for men? One who, quitting those, is content with what comes of itself attains perfection.

5. What man is there, who having observed the diversity of opinions among the great seers, saints and yogins, and become completely indifferent to learning, does not attain quietude?

6. He who gains knowledge of the true nature of Pure Consciousness by complete indifference to the world, by equanimity, and by reasoning, and saves himself from the round of birth and rebirth, is he not really the spiritual guide?

7. Look upon the modifications of the elements as nothing in reality but the primary elements themselves and you will at once be free from bondage and abide in your true self.

8. Desires alone are the world. Do you, therefore, renounce them all. The renunciation of the desire is the renunciation of the world. Now you may live anywhere.

1. Duties done and not done, as well as the pairs of opposites –- when do they cease and for whom? Knowing thus, be desireless and intent on renunciation through complete indifference to the world.

2. Rare indeed, my child, is that blessed person whose desire for life, enjoyment, and learning have been extinguished by observing the ways of men.

3. The wise man becomes calm by realizing that all verily is vitiated by the threefold misery and is transient, unsubstantial, and contemptible, and should be rejected.

4. What is that time or that age in which the pairs of opposites do not exist for men? One who, quitting those, is content with what comes of itself attains perfection.

5. What man is there, who having observed the diversity of opinions among the great seers, saints and yogins, and become completely indifferent to learning, does not attain quietude?

6. He who gains knowledge of the true nature of Pure Consciousness by complete indifference to the world, by equanimity, and by reasoning, and saves himself from the round of birth and rebirth, is he not really the spiritual guide?

7. Look upon the modifications of the elements as nothing in reality but the primary elements themselves and you will at once be free from bondage and abide in your true self.

8. Desires alone are the world. Do you, therefore, renounce them all. The renunciation of the desire is the renunciation of the world. Now you may live anywhere.

1. It is bondage when the mind desires or grieves at anything, rejects or accepts anything, feels happy or angry at anything.

2. Liberation is attained when the mind does not desire or grieve or reject or feel happy or angry.

3. It is bondage when the mind is attached to any sense experience. It is liberation when the mind is detached from all sense experiences.

4. When there is no ‘I,’ there is liberation; when there is ‘I,’ there is bondage. Considering thus, easily refrain from accepting or rejecting anything.

1. It is bondage when the mind desires or grieves at anything, rejects or accepts anything, feels happy or angry at anything.

2. Liberation is attained when the mind does not desire or grieve or reject or feel happy or angry.

3. It is bondage when the mind is attached to any sense experience. It is liberation when the mind is detached from all sense experiences.

4. When there is no ‘I,’ there is liberation; when there is ‘I,’ there is bondage. Considering thus, easily refrain from accepting or rejecting anything.

1. In me, the boundless ocean, the ark of the universe moves hither and thither impelled by the wind of its own inherent nature. I am not impatient.

2. In me, the limitless ocean, let the wave of the world rise or vanish of itself. I neither increase nor decrease thereby.

3. In me, the boundless ocean, is the imagination of the universe. I am quite tranquil and formless. In this alone do I abide.

4. The Self is not in the object, nor is the object in the Self which is infinite and stainless. Thus It is free from attachment and desire, and tranquil. In this alone do I abide.

5. Oh, I am really Consciousness itself. The world is like a juggler’s show. So how and where can there be any thought of rejection and acceptance in me?

1. In me, the boundless ocean, the ark of the universe moves hither and thither impelled by the wind of its own inherent nature. I am not impatient.

2. In me, the limitless ocean, let the wave of the world rise or vanish of itself. I neither increase nor decrease thereby.

3. In me, the boundless ocean, is the imagination of the universe. I am quite tranquil and formless. In this alone do I abide.

4. The Self is not in the object, nor is the object in the Self which is infinite and stainless. Thus It is free from attachment and desire, and tranquil. In this alone do I abide.

5. Oh, I am really Consciousness itself. The world is like a juggler’s show. So how and where can there be any thought of rejection and acceptance in me?

1. Boundless as space am I, and the phenomenal world is like a jar; this is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

2. I am like the ocean and the universe is like the wave; this is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

3. I am like mother of pearl and the illusion of the universe is like silver; this is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

4. I am indeed in all beings, and all beings are in me. This is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

1. Boundless as space am I, and the phenomenal world is like a jar; this is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

2. I am like the ocean and the universe is like the wave; this is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

3. I am like mother of pearl and the illusion of the universe is like silver; this is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

4. I am indeed in all beings, and all beings are in me. This is Knowledge. So it has neither to be renounced nor accepted nor destroyed.

1. You are free from contact with anything whatsoever. Therefore, pure as you are, what do you want to renounce? Destroy the body-complex and in this way enter into the state of dissolution.

2. The universe rises from you like bubbles rising from the sea. Thus know the Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution.

3. The universe, because it is unreal, being manifested like the snake in the rope, does not exist in you who are pure, even though it is present to the senses. Therefore in this way enter into the state of dissolution.

4. You are perfect and the same in misery and happiness, hope and despair, and life and death. Therefore in this way enter into the state of dissolution.