Ashtavakra said:
1. Give up the chief enemy, desire for pleasure and for worldly prosperity, both being fraught with evil, as well as enslavement to Dharma (good deeds) from which they spring.
2. Look upon friends, possessions, wealth, mansions, wives, gifts, and other good fortune as a dream or a magic show, lasting only three or five days.
3. Know that where desires prevail, there is the world. Cherishing feeling of steadfast non-attachment, free thyself from desire and be happy.
4. Desire constitutes the only bondage. To be freed from it is liberation. By cultivating indifference to worldly objects, one obtains the bliss of realization.
5. Thou art One, pure Consciousness. The word is inert and unreal. Even ignorance is non-existent. Therefore, what desire can’st thou cherish.
6. In countless former births thou wast attached to land, sons, wives, joys, bodies, and pleasure, and yet they have ended.
7. Bring to an end wealth, desires, and good and pious deeds. They will not bring rest to thy mind in the gloomy forest of the world.
8. How many incarnations hast thou devoted to the actions of body, mind, and speech? They have brought thee nothing but pain. Why not cease from them?