Ashtavakra Gita =you are free = be free

You are free :: Not the pain is yours neither the pleasure is::

:: Be free ::

----- from Ashtavakra Gita (अष्टावक्रगीता)

धर्माधर्मौ सुखं दुःखं मानसानि न ते विभो |
न कर्तासि न भोक्तासि मुक्त एवासि सर्वदा ||१- ६||

dharmādharmau sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ mānasāni na te vibho |
na kartāsi na bhoktāsi mukta evāsi sarvadā || 1-6||


धर्म अधर्म सुख दुख मस्तिष्क से जुड़े हैं । सर्व व्यापक आपसे नहीं न आप करने वाले हैं और न भोगने वाले हैं आप सदा मुक्त ही हैं ।

Righteousness and unrighteousness, pleasure and pain are purely of the mind and are no concern of yours. YOU are neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, so YOU are always free.

Comments::

In this relative world of duality, every individual goes through experiences like pleasure and pain, right and wrong, fear and courage and so on. It is our basic nature to avoid suffering and pain and only accept happiness and joy. In this pursuit we indulge in various vices and sins. We fail to see what lies beyond the mind and that is the cause of our suffering. All these experiences
exist as long as the mind exists. Beyond the mind none of these dualities remain.

Ashtavakra advises an aspirant to remain steadfast in his sadhana,
irrespective of whether he experiences joy in his meditations, or not, as these are all the workings of the mind. Without a sense of doership, and without thinking whether one will get anything in return or not, simply devote whatever time one can in the worship of one's sense of beingness. Individual ego too exists as long as the mind exists; the two are interdependent. When the mind is transcended, the ego is automatically dropped. The absolute truth is that there is no such thing as mind or ego. They are all false appearances. We are always free but we imagine that the chain of ego and mind has bound us