Ashtavakra Gita 18.65Chapter 18, Verse 65
Ashtavakra Gita 18.65 is a verse from chapter 18 (Peace in a hundred verses). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "Blessed is the one who knows the Self and stays the same in every state: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, with a mind free of thirst."
स एव धन्य आत्मज्ञः सर्वभावेषु यः समः ।पश्यन् शृण्वन् स्पृशन् जिघ्रन्अश्नन्निस्तर्षमानसः ॥
sa eva dhanya ātmajñaḥ sarvabhāveṣu yaḥ samaḥ |paśyan śṛṇvan spṛśan jighranaśnannistarṣamānasaḥ ||
Blessed is the one who knows the Self and stays the same in every state: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, with a mind free of thirst.
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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