the quantum leap into
the quantum leap into
the quantum leap into
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1<br />
CHAPTER I<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
Ashtavakra Gita (known also as<br />
Ashtavakra Samhita) is a unique treatise on<br />
<strong>the</strong> Non-dualistic (Advaita) philosophy which<br />
guarantees to transport a seeker<br />
instantaneously by a direct path from time to<br />
eternity, from <strong>the</strong> relative to <strong>the</strong> Absolute and<br />
from bondage to liberation (MUKTI). There is<br />
no pre-requisite, no rituals no control of<br />
breath (Pranayama) or thoughts, no Japa or<br />
chanting of sacred syllables and not even any<br />
meditation or contemplation. It is all an<br />
effortless <strong>quantum</strong> flight to <strong>the</strong> ultimate goal<br />
(MOKSHA). One second, you are here on<br />
what you consider as <strong>the</strong> terra firma of <strong>the</strong><br />
phenomenal world and <strong>the</strong> next you find<br />
yourself in a summit of timelessness and bliss,<br />
where both <strong>the</strong> world and yourself are<br />
dissolved <strong>into</strong> nothingness. ""When "I' ceased