Chapter 5 – Reality of Your-Self

Seer Ashtavakra explains:

You, the Pure one are not attached with anybody

Then what do you want to detach from;

Merging your-Self with this world

Be one with it. 5.1

This world appears from within you

as waves rise from within sea;

Know your-Self as a sea

Dissolve into it

Be One with It. 5.2

This world though visible

actually does not exist on its own;

It appears in you the stainless

as a snake appears in a rope;

Thus be one with your-Self. 5.3

You are One, Same, Unchangeable and Complete

Whether in pain or pleasure, in hope or despair, in death or alive

Thus dissolve into your-Self. 5.4

End of Chapter 5