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Untangle Your Mind reads chapter two of the Ashtavakra Gita in Bart Marshall’s English, then comments on the lines. The voice in the chapter is Janaka, after he has listened to Ashtavakra. He says a light is what lets a body and a world show up at all. Cloth, looked at closely, is threads. Creation, looked at the same way, is the self. Sweetness spread through cane juice is his picture for an essence in everything. He says he cannot rot or die, even if a god and the whole world were gone down to one last blade of grass. A pot going back to clay, a wave going back to water, and a bracelet going back to gold are his pictures of forms returning. Near the close of the chapter he says he is awareness, and that a body is not what he is and not something he possesses. The channel treats that claim as the point of the reading. Read slowly, the chapter rewards a second listen.
Key points
- Untangle Your Mind reads chapter two of the Ashtavakra Gita and then comments.
- Janaka says a light is what lets a body and a world show up.
- He says he cannot rot or die, even if the world were gone.
- Pots, waves, and bracelets are his pictures of forms returning to one stuff.
- He says he is awareness, and that a body is not what he is.
Short quotes
By this light alone the body and the universe appear.
Janaka, Ashtavakra on awareness
He says a light is what lets a body and a world show up. Watch at 1:03
I cannot decay nor even [ever] die, though God and all the universe should perish to the last blade of grass.
Janaka, Ashtavakra on awareness
He says he cannot rot or die, even if a god and the world were gone. Watch at 3:10
I am not the body; I do not have a body.
Janaka, Ashtavakra on awareness
He says a body is not what he is and not something he holds. Watch at 6:37
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