Ashtavakra Gita 18.62Chapter 18, Verse 62
Ashtavakra Gita 18.62 is a verse from chapter 18 (Peace in a hundred verses). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "The confused often show dispassion toward their possessions. For one whose clinging to the body has melted, where is attachment, and where is dispassion?"
परिग्रहेषु वैराग्यं प्रायो मूढस्य दृश्यते ।देहे विगलिताशस्य क्व रागः क्व विरागता ॥
parigraheṣu vairāgyaṃ prāyo mūḍhasya dṛśyate |dehe vigalitāśasya kva rāgaḥ kva virāgatā ||
The confused often show dispassion toward their possessions. For one whose clinging to the body has melted, where is attachment, and where is dispassion?
Ashtavakra, to King Janaka
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Chapter 18, Peace in a hundred verses: The longest chapter, a third of the text, contrasting the confused who strive with the steady who are already at rest.
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