Ashtavakra Gita 18.79Chapter 18, Verse 79
Ashtavakra Gita 18.79 is a verse from chapter 18 (Peace in a hundred verses). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "Where is patience, where is discernment, where is even fearlessness, for the yogi whose nature cannot be described and who has no separate nature?"
क्व धैर्यं क्व विवेकित्वं क्व निरातङ्कतापि वा ।अनिर्वाच्यस्वभावस्य निःस्वभावस्य योगिनः ॥
kva dhairyaṃ kva vivekitvaṃ kva nirātaṅkatāpi vā |anirvācyasvabhāvasya niḥsvabhāvasya yoginaḥ ||
Where is patience, where is discernment, where is even fearlessness, for the yogi whose nature cannot be described and who has no separate 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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