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consciousness (Videha). While Bhagavad Gita<br />
has lent itself to several interpretations and its<br />
meanings have been twisted and distorted by<br />
many commentators, both ancient and<br />
modern, Ashtavakra Gita is so simple and<br />
emphatically direct that it is impossible to<br />
misinterpret <strong>the</strong> text and very few have<br />
ventured to translate it and add any<br />
commentaries. This is a text which cannot be<br />
understood through intellectual brilliance or by<br />
mere scholarship. It can only be understood<br />
through <strong>the</strong> heart, by an intuitive spiritual<br />
experience. Out of <strong>the</strong> total 298 stanzas<br />
almost each one of <strong>the</strong>m is an independent<br />
Bliss-capsule, self-sufficient and capable of<br />
taking one to <strong>the</strong> ultimate destination by itself.<br />
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was<br />
desirous that his best pupil Naren (later<br />
known as Swami Vivekananda) should go<br />
through Ashtavakra Gita; but <strong>the</strong> latter<br />
stubbornly resisted it. But Sri Ramakrishna<br />
resorted to a ruse by requesting Naren to
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