Ashtavakra Gita 18.91Chapter 18, Verse 91
Ashtavakra Gita 18.91 is a verse from chapter 18 (Peace in a hundred verses). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "Beggar or king, the one without desire shines, he whose ideas of good and bad in things have melted away."
भिक्षुर्वा भूपतिर्वापि यो निष्कामः स शोभते ।भावेषु गलिता यस्य शोभनाशोभना मतिः ॥
bhikṣurvā bhūpatirvāpi yo niṣkāmaḥ sa śobhate |bhāveṣu galitā yasya śobhanāśobhanā matiḥ ||
Beggar or king, the one without desire shines, he whose ideas of good and bad in things have melted away.
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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