Ashtavakra Gita 15.13Chapter 15, Verse 13
Ashtavakra Gita 15.13 is a verse from chapter 15 (What you are). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "In you, who are one, unchanging, at peace, a spotless sky of awareness, where is birth, where is action, where is the sense of 'I'?"
एकस्मिन्नव्यये शान्ते चिदाकाशेऽमले त्वयि ।कुतो जन्म कुतो कर्म कुतोऽहङ्कार एव च ॥
ekasminnavyaye śānte cidākāśe'male tvayi |kuto janma kuto karma kuto'haṅkāra eva ca ||
In you, who are one, unchanging, at peace, a spotless sky of awareness, where is birth, where is action, where is the sense of 'I'?
Ashtavakra, to King Janaka
Word meanings and a note for this verse are still being written. Read it in context on the chapter 15 page, or start with the verses in where to begin.
Chapter 15, What you are: Ashtavakra's second long teaching: you are awareness, the world is waves on your ocean, so move about at ease.
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