Ashtavakra Gita 11.6 — Wisdom, Chapter 11, Verse 6
नाहं देहो न मे देहो बोधोऽहमिति निश्चयी ।
कैवल्यमिव सम्प्राप्तो न स्मरत्यकृतं कृतम् ॥ ११-६॥
nāhaṃ deho na me deho bodho'hamiti niścayī .
kaivalyamiva samprāpto na smaratyakṛtaṃ kṛtam .. 11-6..
ഞാൻ ദേഹം അല്ല, ദേഹം എന്റേത് അല്ല, ഞാൻ ശുദ്ധബോധമാണ് എന്നുറച്ചവൻ കൈവല്യം നേടിയവനെപ്പോലെ ചെയ്തതും ചെയ്യാത്തതുമായ കർമ്മങ്ങളെ ഓർക്കുന്നില്ല.
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The verse states the certainty: 'I am not the body, the body is not mine; I am pure consciousness.'
It means that such a person lives with the freedom characteristic of liberation, no longer bound by bodily identification or past action.
The translation indicates that one established in pure consciousness does not dwell on what was done or not done, because the sense of doership has fallen away.
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