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Festival days Adipperukku 3, Monday ;Adi amavasai 12,Wednesday ;Adip puram 14, Friday ; Independence Day, 15,Saturday ;Naga Panchami: 17 (Monday); Onam: 26, (Wednesday) – And Rik Upakarma; Yajur Upakarma 27 Thursday ; Raksha Bandhan: 28, (Friday) – Celebration of the bond between brothers and sisters; Gayatri japa ; Varalakshmi Vrat: 28, (Friday) – Fasting and prayer dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi.
Amavasya / new moon day 12; Purnima/ full moon day 28.
Ekadasi Fasting Days- 9; 23; Auspicious days – 30, 31.
Ashtavakra Gita (or ‘Ashtavakra Samhita’) is a dialogue between Ashtavakra and Janaka (king of Mithila) on the nature of soul, reality and bondage. It is in Mahabharata. It teaches Advaita Vedanta. Chapters one, five and thirteen are used. Following is taken from wisdomlib.org
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August 1 Saturday
Janaka: (CHAPTER 1)
1 How is knowledge to be acquired? How is liberation to be attained? And how is dispassion to be reached? Tell me this, sir.
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August 2 Sunday
Ashtavakra:
2 If you are seeking liberation, my son, shun the objects of the senses like poison. Practise tolerance, sincerity, compassion, contentment and truthfulness like nectar.
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August 3 Monday
3 You are neither earth, water, fire, air or even ether. For liberation know yourself as consisting of consciousness, the witness of these.
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August 4 Tuesday
4 If only you will remain resting in consciousness, seeing yourself as distinct from the body, then even now you will become happy, peaceful and free from bonds.
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August 5 Wednesday .
5 You do not belong to the brahmin or any other caste, you are not at any stage, nor are you anything that the eye can see. You are unattached and formless, the witness of everything – so be happy.
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August 6 Thursday
6 Righteousness and unrighteousness, pleasure and pain are purely of the mind and are no concern of yours. You are neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, so you are always free.
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August 7 Friday
7 You are the one witness of everything, and are always totally free. The cause of your bondage is that you see the witness as something other than this.
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August 8 Saturday
8 Since you have been bitten by the black snake of the self-opinion that ‘I am the doer’, drink the nectar of faith in the fact that ‘I am not the doer’, and be happy.
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August 9 Sunday
9 Burn down the forest of ignorance with the fire of the understanding that ‘I am the one pure awareness’, and be happy and free from distress.
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August 10 Monday
10 That in which all this appears – imagined like the snake in a rope, that joy, supreme joy and awareness is what you are, so be happy.
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August 11 Tuesday
11 If one thinks of oneself as free, one is free, and if one thinks of oneself as bound, one is bound. Here this saying is true, “Thinking makes it so”.
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August 12 Wednesday
12 Your real nature is as the one perfect, free, and actionless consciousness, the all-pervading witness – unattached to anything, desireless and at peace. It is from illusion that you seem to be involved in samsara.
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August 13 Thursday
13 Meditate on yourself as motionless awareness, free from any dualism, giving up the mistaken idea that you are just a derivative consciousness, or anything external or internal.
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August 14 Friday
14 You have long been trapped in the snare of identification with the body. Sever it with the knife of knowledge that ‘I am awareness’, and be happy, my son.
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August 15 Saturday .
15 You are really unbound and actionless, self-illuminating and spotless already. The cause of your bondage is that you are still resorting to stilling the mind.
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August 16 Sunday
16 All of this is really filled by you and strung out in you, for what you consist of is pure awareness – so don’t be small minded.
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August 17 Monday
17 You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness and unperturbable, so hold to nothing but consciousness.
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August 18 Tuesday
18 Recognise that the apparent is unreal, while the unmanifest is abiding. Through this initiation into truth you will escape falling into unreality again.
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August 19 Wednesday
19 Just as a mirror exists everywhere both within and apart from its reflected images, so the Supreme Lord exists everywhere within and apart from this body.
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August 20 Thursday
20 Just as one and the same all-pervading space exists within and without a jar, so the eternal, everlasting God exists in the totality of things.
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August 21 Friday
Janaka: (CHAPTER 13)
1 The inner freedom of having nothing is hard to achieve, even with just a loin-cloth, but I live as I please abandoning both renunciation and acquisition. (This way I live happily)
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August 22 Saturday
2 Sometimes one experiences distress because of one’s body, sometimes because of one’s tongue, and sometimes because of one’s mind. Abandoning all of these, I live as I please in the goal of human existence. (This way I live happily)
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August 23 Sunday
3 Recognising that in reality no action is ever committed, I live as I please, just doing what presents itself to be done. (This way I live happily)
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August 24 Monday
4 Yogis who identify themselves with their bodies are insistent on fulfilling and avoiding certain actions, but I live as I please abandoning attachment and rejection. (This way I live happily)
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August 25 Tuesday
5 No benefit or loss comes to me by standing, walking or lying down, so consequently I live as I please whether standing, walking or sleeping. (This way I live happily)
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August 26 Wednesday
6 I lose nothing by sleeping and gain nothing by effort, so consequently I live as I please, abandoning loss and success. (This way I live happily).
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August 27 Thursday
7 Frequently observing the drawbacks of such things as pleasant objects, I live as I please, abandoning the pleasant and unpleasant. (This way I live happily).
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August 28 Friday
Ashtavakra: (CHAPTER 5)
1 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.
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August 29 Saturday
2 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.
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August 30 Sunday
3 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.
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August 31 Monday
4 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.
–subham—
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