Ashtavakra Gita 2.6Chapter 2, Verse 6
Ashtavakra Gita 2.6 is a verse from chapter 2 (Janaka's wonder). King Janaka speaks it to his teacher, the sage Ashtavakra. In plain English it says: "As sugar made from cane juice is filled with that juice, so the world, imagined in me, is filled with me through and through."
यथैवेक्षुरसे क्लृप्ता तेन व्याप्तैव शर्करा ।तथा विश्वं मयि क्लृप्तं मया व्याप्तं निरन्तरम् ॥
yathaivekṣurase klṛptā tena vyāptaiva śarkarā |tathā viśvaṃ mayi klṛptaṃ mayā vyāptaṃ nirantaram ||
As sugar made from cane juice is filled with that juice, so the world, imagined in me, is filled with me through and through.
King Janaka, to Ashtavakra
Word meanings and a note for this verse are still being written. Read it in context on the chapter 2 page, or start with the verses in where to begin.
Chapter 2, Janaka's wonder: Janaka finds himself as awareness and bows to it in astonishment, testing the new view against the world, the body and the crowd.
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