Chapter V: Four Ways to Dissolution

#	Sanskrit Original	Translation by Bart Marshall	Translation by John Richards	Translation by Swami Nityaswarupananda
5.1	अष्टावक्र उवाच। न ते सङ्गोऽस्ति केनापि किं शुद्धस्त्यक्तुमिच्छसि। सङ्घातविलयं कुर्वन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज॥	Ashtavakra said: You are immaculate, touched by nothing. What is there to renounce? The mind is complex - let it go. Know the peace of dissolution.	Ashtavakra: You are not bound by anything. What does a pure person like you need to renounce? Putting the complex organism to rest, you can go to your rest.	Ashtavakra said: You have no contact with anything whatsoever. Therefore, pure as you are, what do you want to renounce? Destroy the complex and even thus enter into (the state of) Dissolution.
5.2	उदेति भवतो विश्वं वारिधेरिव बुद्बुदः। इति ज्ञात्वैकमात्मानमेवमेव लयं व्रज॥	The universe arises from you like foam from the sea. Know yourself as One. Enter the peace of dissolution.	All this arises out of you, like a bubble out of the sea. Knowing yourself like this to be but one, you can go to your rest.	The universe rises from you like bubbles rising from the sea. Thus know the Atman to be one and enter even thus into (the state of) Dissolution.
5.3	प्रत्यक्षमप्यवस्तुत्वाद्विश्वं नास्त्यमले त्वयि। रज्जुसर्प इव व्यक्तमेवमेव लयं व्रज॥	Like an imagined snake in a rope the universe appears to exist in the immaculate Self but does not. Seeing this you know: "There is nothing to dissolve."	In spite of being in front of your eyes, all this, being insubstantial, does not exist in you, spotless as you are. It is an appearance like the snake in a rope, so you can go to your rest.	The universe, being manifested like the snake in the rope, does not exist in you who are pure, even though it is present to the senses; because it is unreal. Thus verily do you enter into (the state of) Dissolution.
5.4	समदुःखसुखः पूर्ण आशानैराश्ययोः समः। समजीवितमृत्युः सन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज॥	You are perfect, changeless, through misery and happiness, hope and despair, life and death. This is the state of dissolution.	Equal in pain and in pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in death, and complete as you are, you can go to your rest.	You are perfect and equanimous in misery and happiness, hope and despair, and life and death. Therefore even thus do you attain (the state of) Dissolution.