Ashtavakra Gita chapter 5: Four ways to rest

Chapter 5 of the Ashtavakra Gita, "Four ways to rest", has 4 verses. Ashtavakra speaks. Four short verses, each ending with the same instruction: let the sense of separation dissolve, and rest. Every verse is below in Sanskrit and in Wisdom's plain English.

All 4 verses

1. 5.1

   न ते सङ्गोऽस्ति केनापि किं शुद्धस्त्यक्तुमिच्छसि ।सङ्घातविलयं कुर्वन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥

   na te saṅgo'sti kenāpi kiṃ śuddhastyaktumicchasi |saṅghātavilayaṃ kurvannevameva layaṃ vraja ||

   You are tied to nothing. You are pure. What would you give up? Let this bundle of body and mind dissolve, and so go to rest.

2. 5.2

   उदेति भवतो विश्वं वारिधेरिव बुद्बुदः ।इति ज्ञात्वैकमात्मानमेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥

   udeti bhavato viśvaṃ vāridheriva budbudaḥ |iti jñātvaikamātmānamevameva layaṃ vraja ||

   The world rises from you like a bubble from the sea. Know the Self as one, and so go to rest.

3. 5.3

   प्रत्यक्षमप्यवस्तुत्वाद् विश्वं नास्त्यमले त्वयि ।रज्जुसर्प इव व्यक्तमेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥

   pratyakṣamapyavastutvād viśvaṃ nāstyamale tvayi |rajjusarpa iva vyaktamevameva layaṃ vraja ||

   Though seen, the world is unreal, and it does not exist in you, the spotless one: it is like the snake in the rope. Know this, and so go to rest.

4. 5.4

   समदुःखसुखः पूर्ण आशानैराश्ययोः समः ।समजीवितमृत्युः सन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥

   samaduḥkhasukhaḥ pūrṇa āśānairāśyayoḥ samaḥ |samajīvitamṛtyuḥ sannevameva layaṃ vraja ||

   The same in pain and pleasure, full, the same in hope and disappointment, the same in life and death: being so, go to rest.