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The Ashtavakra Gita:
Chapter #2:
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Ashtavakra said: "You are the one observer of all, and in reality always free. Your bondage is this: You see the other - not yourself - as the observer.
"I am the doer," thus has the black serpent of ego bitten you. "I am not the doer," drink this divine nectar of trust and be happy.
"I am the one pure awareness," thus having burned the forest of your ignorance with this fire of certainty and being beyond sorrow, be happy.
You are that bliss, that ultimate bliss, Within which this imaginary world is projected like a snake on a rope.* Knowing this, thus wander happily. He who considers himself free is free, and he who considers himself bound is bound; because in this world the proverb is true: "As you think, so you are."
The soul is the witness, all-pervading, perfect, one, free, conscious, free from doing, absolutely alone, non-attached, desireless, peaceful. Because of illusion, it looks like the world.
"I am an individually projected life," drop this illusion and also the feeling of inner and outer, and awaken in the feeling that you are the unchanging, conscious, nondual soul."
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*In Indian philosophy, the metaphor of a rope being mistaken for a snake in the twilight hours, by a man who has fear, is often used to show how the ignorance of man's mind can project illusion.
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