ASTAVAKRA SAMHITA

Tranquillity

Janaka said —
1. He verily has his recollections of worldly life exhausted, who is emptyminded by nature, who thinks of sense-objects involuntarily, and who is, as it were,
awake though asleep.

2. When desire has melted away, where then are my riches, where my friends,
where are the robbers in the form of sense-objects, where the scriptures, and where
knowledge?

3. As I have realized the Supreme Self who is the Witness and the Lord, and
have become indifferent to both bondage and liberation, I feel no anxiety for
emancipation.

4. The different conditions of one who within is devoid of doubts but outwardly
moves about at his own pleasure like a deluded person, can only be understood by
those like him.