ASHTAVAKRA GITA : THE SONG OF ASHTAVAKRA 

17.11 Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting, speaking and walking about, the great souled man who is freed from trying to achieve or avoid anything is free indeed.

17.12 The liberated man is free from desires everywhere. He does not blame, does not praise, does not rejoice, is not disappointed, and neither gives nor takes.

17.13 When a great souled one is equally unperturbed in mind and self-possessed at the sight of a woman full of desire and at approaching death, he is truly liberated.

17.14 There is no distinction between pleasure and pain, man and woman, success and failure for the wise man who looks on everything as equal.

17.15 There is no aggression or compassion, no pride or humility, no wonder or confusion for the man whose days of running about are over.

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