No Success, Money, or Pious Deeds Will Save You: Rishi Ashtavakra
You go to a Dattatreya, or a Ribhu, or an Rishi Ashtavakra—they all will be quick to denounce virtues as much as they denounce vices because they focus on the actor and not the action. They focus on the doer and not on the deeds. Because they do not focus on the deeds, so for them, pious deeds are only as good or bad as profane deeds. For them, pious deeds or profanity both belong to the same dimension. They are talking of something beyond that dimension.
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अलमर्थेन कामेन सुकृतेनापि कर्मणा ।
एभ्यः संसारकान्तारे न विश्रान्तमभून्मनः ॥ 10.७ ॥
alamarthena kāmena sukṛtenāpi karmaṇā
ebhyaḥ saṁsārakāntāre na viśrāntamabhūn manaḥ || 10.7 ||
Enough of prosperity, sensuality and pious deeds. The mind did not find repose in these in the dreary forest of the world.
~ Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 10, Verse 7
