Quotes by Philosophical Texts

This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.

Ashtavakra Gita

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

Ashtavakra Gita

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

Ashtavakra Gita

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

Ashtavakra Gita

Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.

Ashtavakra Gita

You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.

Ashtavakra Gita