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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

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