Advaita Vedanta · attributed to Shankaracharya
Nirvana Shatakam, stanza 3
Neither attachment nor aversion, neither pride nor envy
न मे द्वेषरागौ न मे लोभमोहौ मदो नैव मे नैव मात्सर्यभावः। न धर्मो न चार्थो न कामो न मोक्षः चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम्॥
I have neither hatred nor attachment, neither greed nor delusion. No pride, no envy. I am not bound by the four aims of life. I am Consciousness-Bliss. I am Shiva. I am Shiva.
What this verse points to
Now the emotional life, and then the four purusharthas — dharma, artha, kama, moksha — the aims that are supposed to organise a whole human existence. Even liberation is included in what is denied.
Including moksha is deliberate and severe. If the one reciting is already what the seeking is for, then seeking is one more activity happening to someone who is not the seeker.
Sit with it
Notice any ambition attached to your practice, including spiritual ambition, and set it down before you begin.
About the Nirvana Shatakam
Also called Atma Shatakam — six stanzas, each stripping away another layer of what one takes oneself to be (mind, breath, emotion, virtue, relationship, form) and each closing with the same refrain: chidananda rupah shivoham, "I am consciousness and bliss; I am Shiva." It is a negation practice in the form of a hymn.
References to this text are given as stanza — here, 3.