ASTAVAKRA SAMHITA

Four Ways to Dissolution

Ashtavakra said —
1. You are free from contact with anything whatsoever. Therefore, pure as you
are, what do you want to renounce? Destroy the body-complex and in this way
enter into the state of dissolution.

2. The universe rises from you like bubbles rising from the sea. Thus know the
Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution.

3. The universe, because it is unreal, being manifested like the snake in the rope,
does not exist in you who are pure, even though it is present to the senses. Therefore
in this way enter into the state of dissolution.

4. You are perfect and the same in misery and happiness, hope and despair, and
life and death. Therefore in this way enter into the state of dissolution.