How One Attains Liberation? – Ashtavakra Answers To King Janak
King Janaka asked, “Oh Lord, how does one attain liberation and how is non-attachment attained? Please tell me this.
King Janaka asked, “Oh Lord, how does one attain liberation and how is non-attachment attained? Please tell me this.
Ashtavakra replied, “Oh beloved, if you want liberation,
then renounce the passions as poison and take forgiveness and innocence,
compassion, contentment, and truth as nectar.
You are neither earth nor air nor fire nor water nor ether.
To attain liberation know yourself as the witnessing
consciousness of all these. If you separate yourself from the physical body and
rest in consciousness then this very moment you will be happy, at peace, and
free of bondage.
You are not a Brahmin or other caste. You are not in any of
the four stages of life.
You are not perceived by the eyes of other senses.
Unattached and without form, you are the witness of the
whole universe.
Know this and be happy.
Oh expansive one, religion and atheism, happiness and
misery, order of the mind – they are not for you.
You are neither the doer nor the enjoyer.
You
have always been liberated.