Ashtavakra Gita chapter 14: Peace

Chapter 14 of the Ashtavakra Gita, "Peace", has 4 verses. King Janaka speaks. With craving melted, wealth, friends, scripture and learning lose their hold; only those in this state know it. Every verse is below in Sanskrit and in Wisdom's plain English.

All 4 verses

1. 14.1

   प्रकृत्या शून्यचित्तो यः प्रमादाद् भावभावनः ।निद्रितो बोधित इव क्षीणसंस्मरणो हि सः ॥

   prakṛtyā śūnyacitto yaḥ pramādād bhāvabhāvanaḥ |nidrito bodhita iva kṣīṇasaṃsmaraṇo hi saḥ ||

   One whose mind is empty by nature, who thinks of things only by oversight, is like someone who has woken from sleep: his memories of the world have grown faint.

2. 14.2

   क्व धनानि क्व मित्राणि क्व मे विषयदस्यवः ।क्व शास्त्रं क्व च विज्ञानं यदा मे गलिता स्पृहा ॥

   kva dhanāni kva mitrāṇi kva me viṣayadasyavaḥ |kva śāstraṃ kva ca vijñānaṃ yadā me galitā spṛhā ||

   Where is wealth, where are friends, where are the thieves called sense objects, where is scripture, where is learning, now that my craving has melted away?

3. 14.3

   विज्ञाते साक्षिपुरुषे परमात्मनि चेश्वरे ।नैराश्ये बन्धमोक्षे च न चिन्ता मुक्तये मम ॥

   vijñāte sākṣipuruṣe paramātmani ceśvare |nairāśye bandhamokṣe ca na cintā muktaye mama ||

   Now that I have known the witness, the supreme Self, the Lord, and hope for neither bondage nor freedom, I have no worry about being freed.

4. 14.4

   अन्तर्विकल्पशून्यस्य बहिः स्वच्छन्दचारिणः ।भ्रान्तस्येव दशास्तास्तास्तादृशा एव जानते ॥

   antarvikalpaśūnyasya bahiḥ svacchandacāriṇaḥ |bhrāntasyeva daśāstāstāstādṛśā eva jānate ||

   Empty of wavering thoughts within, moving freely outside like someone confused: such states are known only by those who share them.