And by my own nature, I know that everything is hollow and empty....that they are nothing!

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स्वभावादेव जानानो दृश्यमेतन्न किंचन ।

इदं ग्राह्यमिदं त्याज्यं स किं पश्यति धीरधीः ॥

अन्तस्त्यक्तकषायस्य निर्द्वन्द्वस्य निराशिषः ।

यदृच्छयागतो भोगो न दुःखाय न तुष्टये ॥

There are two types of knowing. One is when you have known with your mind or your intellect - something is good, something is not good, you should have this, you should not have that. These are all concepts, just words. They don't have any depth. Krishna calls it 'shabd jal'. But this is not the way to know. Inside each word something unknown and unseen is encapsulated. Like a seed, there's something unseen in the word. When you take the word inside you and make it sprout within you, then you know that thing as it is. After a few years, some of you will come and tell me, 'Oh, you said live in the moment, and only today it clicked what living in the moment is! After two and half years of practicing and teaching others! Today, I really discovered what it is!' It would have sprouted then. Until then, it was just a meaningless sound, or it meant something trivial to the mind and nothing more. But nevertheless, at the particular time when it sprouted, the meaning was revealed. This is स्वभावादेव जानानो । Simple words like 'upset'. The same word can be just a word. But if your consciousness is open, what is it? Up. Set. Everything is set up. It means something else! Take the word 'understand'. Under. Stand. Just, understand. Something opens up. स्वभावादेव जानानो । Spirituality was not new to Janaka. He had done years and years of practices and reading of scriptures. He was very involved from a young age. But these few words - not even words - these few minutes with Ashtavakra gave a different meaning. The seed started sprouting. All that he thought he knew 'Oh, I know all this', all the knowledge that was there started anew. It started sprouting. They were not just words. Somewhere those words touched deep in his heart and stirred him. They made him recognize, 'Oh, this is what I have been...' स्वभावादेव जानानो दृश्यमेतन्न किंचन । We have heard our throat is hollow and empty, our lungs or nose are hollow. Everybody knows it. Who doesn't know the nose is hollow? Everyone knows, but experience is different. And by my own nature, I know that everything is hollow and empty....that they are nothing! A child comes out of a mother. Where has the child come from? From nothing! There's nothing inside the mother. Life has sprung up from nothing.

दृश्यमेतन्न किंचन । 'Today, by my very nature, as an experience, I understood. I got it, Aho!' That is why knowledge has no end. Though it is the same thing, every day and every moment it reveals more and more to you. What the impediments are. "I know it all, its not necessary for me." No, it's new. It's new every day. If you remove the impediment, you will see it's very new. इदं ग्राह्यमिदं त्याज्यं स किं पश्यति धीरधीः।

How will such brave person say, 'I want this, I don't want that. I will have this, I will not have that?' Everything is hollow and empty - so appropriate.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA 

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