Astăvakra said

Abandoning desire, the enemy, along with gain,
itself so full of loss, and the good deeds which
are the cause of the other two -
I practice indifference to everything. 10.1

look on such things as friends, land, money,
property, wife, and bequests as nothing but a
dream, at best a three or five-day conjuror's show. 10.2

Whenever you see desire, know its the world
be firm on non-attachment and
free from desire, be happy. 10.3

Bondage consist in desire alone,
destruction of desire is liberation,
by it alone obtain constant joy. 10.4

You are One Pure and Intelligence
the universe you see is devoid of intelligence,
ignorance also is no real entity.
what yet want you to know ? 10.5

Kingdoms, sons, wives, bodies and pleasures
have been lost to you birth after birth,
even though you were attached to them. 10.6

Enough of prosperity, desires and pious deeds,
the mind did not find repose in them
in the dreary forest of the world. 10.7

Beginning after beginning you have worked
hard with body, mind and speech !
cease at least today . 10.8

X   Quietude.
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