That which is beyond experience | Ashtavakra Gita

A verse-by-verse contemplation of a chapter from the Ashtavakra Gita. The pointing is direct: until you drop everything, you will never know Truth; until you know nothing, you will never know Self. Each verse turns back to the listener's own recognition — what remains standing across every state, that which is beyond all experience, this self-evident fact of being aware.

0:00 The Ashtavakra Gita: Special Instruction
3:28 Until you drop everything
4:01 What remains standing?
4:22 You will yearn for That which is beyond all experience
4:38 Awakening, forgetting, in bliss, in sorrow
5:10 Where do You stand?
5:34 Everyone is miserable because they exert constant effort
6:24 Can you drop the effort for a moment?
7:10 Not a thing, not an entity — That which is beyond experience
7:40 The master idler
8:20 When the mind becomes inactive, when sleep approaches
8:42 The bliss of sleep seeping into this world of experience
9:37 The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences
10:01 Now flowing into Now
10:53 Neither accepting nor rejecting
11:17 Being That which is beyond experience
12:10 When the mind is ruled by likes and dislikes — there is a world
12:37 The cause of the sense of being a separate self
13:16 Cut through likes and dislikes with the sword of Truth
13:38 No separate world and no separate you
14:16 Renouncing the world was only to recognize Reality
14:42 Can this State which underlies all states require the renunciation of any state?
15:28 Whatever can be attained can also be lost
15:56 Enlightenment is the direct recognition that you are not a person
16:18 You are this Absolute No-thing
16:57 Until you know nothing, you will never know Self

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