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ASHTAVAKRA SAMHITA
 
50. Through freedom' one attains to
happiness, through freedom to the
Supreme, through freedom to tranquillity
and through freedom to the Highest State.
[1 Freedom from attachment and hatred.]
 
अकर्त्तृत्वमभोक्तृत्वं स्वात्मनो मन्यते यदा ।
तदा क्षीणा भवन्त्येव समस्ताश्चित्तवृत्तयः ॥ ५१ ॥
 
यदा When ( कश्चित् one ) खात्मन: of one's own self
अकर्तृ त्वम् absence of the feeling that one is a doer
अभोक्तृत्वं absence of the feeling that one is an enjoyer
मन्यते perceives तदा then समस्ताः all चित्तवृत्तयः the
modifications of the mind destroyed
 
become.
 
भवन्ति
 
51. All the modifications of the mind
become destroyed when a man realizes
that he himself is neither the doer nor the
enjoyer.
 
[ 1 When etc.—– Because it is such feelings as I
shall do this,' 'I shall enjoy that, that give rise to
the modifications of the mind.]
 
उच्छृङ्खलाप्यकृतिका स्थितिधरस्य राजते ।
नतु सस्पृहचित्तस्य शान्तिर्मूढस्य कृत्रिमा ॥५२॥
 
धौरस्य Of the wise one स्थिति: life उच्छ तला
 
unrestrained अकृतिका inartificial
 
though
 
राजते