Ashtavakra:
- Certainly the wise person of self-knowledge, playing the game of worldly enjoyment, bears no resemblance whatever to the world's bewildered beasts of burden.
- Truly the yogi feels no excitement even at being established in that state which all the Devas from Indra down yearn for disconsolately.
- He who has known That is untouched within by good deeds or bad, just as the sky is not touched by smoke, however much it may appear to be.
- Who can prevent the great-souled person who has known this whole world as himself from living as he pleases?
- Of all four categories of beings, from Brahma down to the last clump of grass, only the man of knowledge is capable of eliminating desire and aversion.
- Rare is the man who knows himself as the undivided Lord of the world, and no fear occurs to him who knows this from anything.