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Lokavidu
18 September 2011, 12:48 AM
Hello


I've found this:


It has been generally accepted that all we know as the physical reality are the sensory images that appear in our minds.
This clearly means that the world is in me, and not me in the world. I am the entire universe. This is precisely what is stated in the highly revered Hindu text, the Ashtavakra Gita: “The universe produced phenomenally in me, is pervaded by me…from me is the world born, in me it exists, in me it dissolves.”
Surely, this is awakening from the dream of everyday reality. Everything is structured in Consciousness.
- Ramesh Balsekar



(source: http://ishmak.tumblr.com/post/9906190377/it-has-been-generally-accepted-that-all-we-know-as)


I can not find the blue sentence in Ashtavakra Gita english translation.


Does anyone here know where the sentence taken from the Ashtavakra Gita (what chapter and verse)?


thank you

PARAM
18 September 2011, 06:41 AM
Hello


I've found this:


It has been generally accepted that all we know as the physical reality are the sensory images that appear in our minds.
This clearly means that the world is in me, and not me in the world. I am the entire universe. This is precisely what is stated in the highly revered Hindu text, the Ashtavakra Gita: “The universe produced phenomenally in me, is pervaded by me…from me is the world born, in me it exists, in me it dissolves.”
Surely, this is awakening from the dream of everyday reality. Everything is structured in Consciousness.
- Ramesh Balsekar



(source: http://ishmak.tumblr.com/post/9906190377/it-has-been-generally-accepted-that-all-we-know-as)


I can not find the blue sentence in Ashtavakra Gita english translation.


Does anyone here know where the sentence taken from the Ashtavakra Gita (what chapter and verse)?


thank you

Ashtavakra Gita is originally a Sanskrit text and translations are not same to same in words, they can only describe meaning.

wundermonk
18 September 2011, 07:15 AM
Just thought I would provide Ramesh Balsekar's commentary on the Ashtavakra Gita here (http://www.amazon.com/Duet-One-Ashtavakra-Gita-Dialogue/dp/0929448111) - a great Advaita classic!

Lokavidu
20 September 2011, 08:33 AM
thank you...and does that quotation really come from Ramesh Balsekar?