Beyond Extremes: Finding Calm in the Middle


Sage Ashtvatra had preached the 'path of equanimity'. He had advised to drop the mental constructs of  dualities called extremes  such as "good and bad" or "bondage and liberation" or 'blame and praise"  to rest effortlessly in the Absolute State of middle path.

Here is his quote

"One man is abstemious and averse to the senses, another is greedy and attached to them, but he who is free from both taking and rejecting is neither abstemious nor greedy."— Ashtavakra Gita (16.6)


So Spake Ashtvatra on Extremes : Quintains

A sage named Ashtvakra did teach,
That freedom is found, within reach.
Not fleeing from strife,
Nor caught in this life
But balanced, beyond every breach.

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Awakened Ashtavakra knew,
The wise heart finds a balanced view.
Not in, nor out they roam,
But find their peaceful home,
From extremes, their spirit grew.

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