Ashtavakra:
- Unmoved and undistressed, realising that being, non-being and transformation are of the very nature of things, one easily finds peace.
- At peace, having shed all desires within, and realising that nothing exists here but the Lord, the Creator of all things, one is no longer attached to anything.
- Realising that misfortune and fortune come in their turn from fate, one is contented, one's senses under control, and does not like or dislike.
- Realising that pleasure and pain, birth and death are from fate, and that one's desires cannot be achieved, one remains inactive, and even when acting does not get attached.
- Realising that suffering arises from nothing other than thinking, dropping all desires one rids oneself of it, and is happy and at peace everywhere.
- Realising, 'I am not the body, nor is the body mine. I am awareness', one attains the supreme state and no longer remembers things done or undone.
- Realising, 'It is just me, from Brahma down to the last clump of grass', one becomes free from uncertainty, pure, at peace and unconcerned about what has been attained or not.
- Realising that all this varied and wonderful world is nothing, one becomes pure receptivity, free from inclinations, and as if nothing existed, one finds peace.