Ashtavakra Gita 17.6Chapter 17, Verse 6
Ashtavakra Gita 17.6 is a verse from chapter 17 (The one who knows). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "Rare is the large-hearted person who has no sense of taking or rejecting dharma, wealth, pleasure, freedom, life or death."
धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु जीविते मरणे तथा ।कस्याप्युदारचित्तस्य हेयोपादेयता न हि ॥
dharmārthakāmamokṣeṣu jīvite maraṇe tathā |kasyāpyudāracittasya heyopādeyatā na hi ||
Rare is the large-hearted person who has no sense of taking or rejecting dharma, wealth, pleasure, freedom, life or death.
Ashtavakra, to King Janaka
Word meanings and a note for this verse are still being written. Read it in context on the chapter 17 page, or start with the verses in where to begin.
Chapter 17, The one who knows: A portrait of the free person, who wants neither pleasure nor freedom and lives at ease seeing, hearing and eating.
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