Ashtavakra Gita 18.72Chapter 18, Verse 72
Ashtavakra Gita 18.72 is a verse from chapter 18 (Peace in a hundred verses). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "For one who shines as the endless and does not see nature apart from himself, where is bondage, where is freedom, where is joy, where is grief?"
स्फुरतोऽनन्तरूपेण प्रकृतिं च न पश्यतः ।क्व बन्धः क्व च वा मोक्षः क्व हर्षः क्व विषादिता ॥
sphurato'nantarūpeṇa prakṛtiṃ ca na paśyataḥ |kva bandhaḥ kva ca vā mokṣaḥ kva harṣaḥ kva viṣāditā ||
For one who shines as the endless and does not see nature apart from himself, where is bondage, where is freedom, where is joy, where is grief?
Ashtavakra, to King Janaka
Word meanings and a note for this verse are still being written. Read it in context on the chapter 18 page, or start with the verses in where to begin.
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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