Rest in Your Own Nature

Ashtavakra: "Now that you have recognized your nature, what remains to be done?"

Janaka: "Nothing. And this is the most remarkable discovery. There is nothing to do, nothing to practice, nothing to maintain. I simply rest in what I am."

Ashtavakra: "And what is that?"

Janaka: "Unmoving awareness. Not awareness of something, but awareness itself - empty, luminous, without boundary. All experience appears within this, but this is not touched by any experience."

Ashtavakra: "If thoughts arise?"

Janaka: "Let them. They are not problems to be solved. They arise like birds crossing the sky - the sky does not need to push them away."

Ashtavakra: "If emotions come?"

Janaka: "They come and go. I neither suppress them nor amplify them. Joy arises, I am the space. Sorrow arises, I am the space. The space does not prefer one guest to another."

Ashtavakra: "And spiritual seeking?"

Janaka: "It has dissolved. Who would seek? What would be sought? The seeker was always the sought. When this is seen clearly, seeking becomes absurd - like a wave searching for water."

Ashtavakra: "Then rest here, O King. Not as an achievement, but as the natural way of being. This is your true sovereignty."

Janaka: "Yes. This throne means nothing compared to this. But even the throne appears in what I am. Everything is included, nothing is excluded. This is freedom."