Ashtavakra Gita 18.70Chapter 18, Verse 70
Ashtavakra Gita 18.70 is a verse from chapter 18 (Peace in a hundred verses). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "Certain that all this is born of error and nothing is, the pure one, whose shining nobody can see, comes to rest by his own nature."
भ्रमभूतमिदं सर्वं किञ्चिन्नास्तीति निश्चयी ।अलक्ष्यस्फुरणः शुद्धः स्वभावेनैव शाम्यति ॥
bhramabhūtamidaṃ sarvaṃ kiñcinnāstīti niścayī |alakṣyasphuraṇaḥ śuddhaḥ svabhāvenaiva śāmyati ||
Certain that all this is born of error and nothing is, the pure one, whose shining nobody can see, comes to rest by his own nature.
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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