Ashtavakra Gita 11.2: Wisdom, Chapter 11, Verse 2
ईश्वरः सर्वनिर्माता नेहान्य इति निश्चयी ।
अन्तर्गलितसर्वाशः शान्तः क्वापि न सज्जते ॥ ११-२॥
īśvaraḥ sarvanirmātā nehānya iti niścayī .
antargalitasarvāśaḥ śāntaḥ kvāpi na sajjate .. 11-2..
iishvarah sarvanirmaataa nehaanya iti nishchayii .
antargalitasarvaashah shaantah kvaapi na sajjate .. 11-2..
ഈശ്വരനാണ് സർവനിർമാതാവ്, ഇവിടെ മറ്റൊന്നുമില്ലെന്ന് നിശ്ചയിച്ചവന്റെ എല്ലാ ആശകളും ഉള്ളിൽ അലിഞ്ഞുപോകുന്നു; ശാന്തനായ അവൻ എവിടെയും ആസക്തനാകുന്നില്ല.
Sandhi Notes
- न + इह -> नेह by अ + इ = ए
- इह + अन्यः -> इहान्यः, represented within नेहान्यः
- क्व + अपि -> क्वापि
- अन्तः/अन्तर् + गलित + सर्व + आशः forms अन्तर्गलितसर्वाशः
- सर्व + आशः -> सर्वाशः by अ + आ = आ
The verse presents certainty regarding the Lord as all-creator and non-separateness as dissolving desire and producing peace and non-attachment.
turiya
desireless peace and non-attachment through certainty of nonduality
The Lord as all-creator and the absence of anything other point to nondual reality in which Atman has no second.
Multiplicity and otherness are implicitly negated; attachment depends on seeing something apart from the whole.
See all appearances as arising in the one divine reality; nothing stands apart to bind the witness.
identification with separate objects, separate agency, and personal craving
If there is nothing other than the one reality, to what can the Self attach?
all hopes, expectations, and attachments to separate objects
certainty that Ishvara alone is the source and there is no second reality
Attachment falls away by insight, not by forced suppression.
Peace is natural when all expectations have inwardly melted.
subtle hope and object-orientation
desireless non-attachment grounded in nonduality
The one Lord is all; nothing else exists independently.
hope, expectation, and belief in independent otherness
nishchaya of nondual Ishvara and dissolution of all desires
Isha Upanishad 1: all this is pervaded by the Lord; renounce and enjoy.
Ashtavakra presents a theistic formulation of nonduality that matures into detachment.
Ishvara as all-maker; no independent second exists
nondual theism as a bridge to pure Advaita
View every object and event as not-other than the one reality; let expectations melt.
1.11; 2.20; 6.4; 15.6; 18.94
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The certainty that the Lord is the creator of everything and that there is nothing else here.
All desires melt away inwardly.
Such a person is peaceful and does not become attached to anything.
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