the quantum leap into

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CHAPTER II
INSTANT RECIPE FOR MUKTI
Scriptures prohibit voluntary instructions
or any information or advice unless
specifically requested for. The first chapter
starts with Janaka questioning Ashtavakra as
to how to get Self-knowledge, liberation
(Mukti) and dispassion (Vairagya). By
liberation is meant the dissolution of our
relationship with the phenomenal world
resulting in the cessation of all miseries and
being established in our natural state of
Existence, Consciousness and Absolute Bliss
(Satchidananda). Ashtavakra gives such a
forceful and direct instruction in barely twenty
stanzas that King Janaka immediately becomes
spiritually illuminated and starts describing his
own experience.
According to Ashtavakra, one could get
instant liberation and bliss if only one were