Ashtavakra Gita 18.89Chapter 18, Verse 89
Ashtavakra Gita 18.89 is a verse from chapter 18 (Peace in a hundred verses). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "He pays no special heed to anything and no tendency is left in his heart. Free and wholly content, with whom can he be compared?"
सर्वत्रानवधानस्य न किञ्चिद् वासना हृदि ।मुक्तात्मनो वितृप्तस्य तुलना केन जायते ॥
sarvatrānavadhānasya na kiñcid vāsanā hṛdi |muktātmano vitṛptasya tulanā kena jāyate ||
He pays no special heed to anything and no tendency is left in his heart. Free and wholly content, with whom can he be compared?
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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