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Ashtavakra Gita - 08 Bondage and Liberation
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029208
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
8: Bondage and Liberation
Ashtavakra said: 8.1 When the mind desires or grieves things, accepts or rejects things, is pleased or displeased by things-- this is bondage.
8.2 When the mind does not desire or grieve, accept or reject, become pleased or displeased, liberation is at hand.
8.3 If the mind is attached to any experience, this is bondage. When the mind is detached from all experience, this is liberation.
8.4 When there is no “I” there is only liberation. When “I” appears bondage appears with it. Knowing this, it is effortless to refrain from accepting and rejecting.
The source of the experience
Ashtavakra GitaConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Reducing desiresReducing opportunities
Reducing threats
Squash the big I am
Suppressing memory
Suppressing obligations