Ashtavakra said:
1. One who has finally learnt that it is in the nature of objects to come into existence, to change and finally to pass away, he easily finds rest through detachment, and is freed from suffering.
2. Being convinced that Ishwara is the Creator of all, and none other, one should remain serene and unattached to any object
3. He is ever content who is convinced that adversity and prosperity come in the fullness of time, or are caused by Karma. His senses are controlled. He neither desires nor grieves.
4. Knowing for certain that joy and suffering, birth and death, are the result of Karma, he realizes that it is not possible to accomplish desires. He sits tranquil, and though engaged in actions, is not affected by them.
5. Anxiety produces misery and nothing else. He who realizes this relinquishes all desires, and is calm and happy.
6. “I am not the body, nor is the body mine. I am Intelligence Itself.” He who has attained this Knowledge has reached the state of the Absolute, and ceases to think on what he has done, and what he has not done.
7. “Verily, all is my own Self, from Brahma to a blade of grass.” This conviction brings freedom from desire and imagination, and gives purity and serenity. Reasoning thus, a man does not concern himself with what has been attained, or what is to be attained.
8. He who is convinced that this manifold and wonderful Universe has no real existence, becomes free from desire, is pure Intelligence, and finds peace in the Knowledge that nothing is real.