Ashtavakra Gita 7.2Chapter 7, Verse 2
Ashtavakra Gita 7.2 is a verse from chapter 7 (The ship on the ocean). King Janaka speaks it to his teacher, the sage Ashtavakra. In plain English it says: "In me, the endless ocean, the wave of the world rises or sinks by its own nature. I neither grow nor shrink."
मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ जगद्वीचिः स्वभावतः ।उदेतु वास्तमायातु न मे वृद्धिर्न च क्षतिः ॥
mayyanantamahāmbhodhau jagadvīciḥ svabhāvataḥ |udetu vāstamāyātu na me vṛddhirna ca kṣatiḥ ||
In me, the endless ocean, the wave of the world rises or sinks by its own nature. I neither grow nor shrink.
King Janaka, to Ashtavakra
Word meanings and a note for this verse are still being written. Read it in context on the chapter 7 page, or start with the verses in where to begin.
Chapter 7, The ship on the ocean: Janaka watches the world drift like a ship on the ocean of awareness, and feels no need to steer it.
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