CONTENTS CHAPTER INTRODUCTION one qe I. mi. Read Tranquillity as headings for INSTRUCTION ON SELF-REALIZATION THE DISCIPLE’S JOY AT SELF-REALIZATION TEST OF DISCIPLE’S SELF-REALIZATION GLORIFICATION OF SELF-REALIZATION FOUR WAYS TO SELF-REALIZATION THE HIGHER KNOWLEDGE DISCIPLE’S REALIZATION BONDAGE AND LIBERATION DETACHMENT eee QUIETUDE pea WisDOM wee DISCIPLE’S REALIZATION HAPPINESS eee PEACE eae KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF SPECIAL INSTRUCTION THE TRUE KNOWER TRANQUILLITY... REPOSE IN SELF LIBERATION-IN-LIFE ERRATUM Ch. XVOI. PAGE 16 83 43 48 52 56CHAPTER I InstRUCTION ON SELF-REALIZATION He SAT | me armani ae geile | aang a aed radag ale aa wat net sae: Janaka Jad said: ay How (#8: man) aH knowledge aamtfa acquires #2 how afer: liberation wfeeqfa will be ad how at renunciation sm is secured WF and wit O Lord wat this FH me Afe tell. Janaka asked: 1. How can knowledge’ be acquired? How can liberation’ be attained? How is renunciation® possible?—Tell me this, O Lord. [} Knowledge—Realization of the identity of the individual self and Paramatman or Brahman which is Existence, Knowledge and Bliss absolute. ®» Liberation—Freedom from ignorance, all bond- ages and, limitations,—the effect of Knowledge mentioned above, i.e. the complete destruction of all misery and attainment of supreme bliss. * Renunciation—non-attachment to the enjoy- ment of the objects of this world as well as of the world beyond. This forms the most important of2 ASHTAVAKRA SAMHITA the four qualifications required of an aspirant for the knowledge of Brahman,—the other three qualifica- tions being (i) discrimination between the real and the unreal, (ii) acquisition of the six cardinal moral virtues—regulation of mind, regulation of the sense- organs, etc., and (iii) intense longing for liberation.] ATH SAT | gfafasale Sena Sears areas | gastagawacd ye Ul ara: Ashtdvakra Jara said: @a O child Aq if (@ you) yA emancipation gaft wish (af then) fis4FL the objects of the senses faq like poison @# shun aanazardaet forgiveness, sincerity, kindness, contentment and truth quad like nectar AW seek. Ashtavakra replied : 2. If you aspire after liberation, my child, shun the objects' of the senses as poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity’, kindness, contentment and truth’ as nectar. [* Objects etc.—Attachment to worldly objects is a great bar to spiritual progress and hence they should be shunned as bitter poison, The implication is ‘that we should drive away all such ideas as “this is mine’, “that is mine’, which spring from the identification of Self with body, mind, etc.