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ego and fear are built up, even a child can
knock them down''. The gods followed this
advice and became victorious.
So long as one considers onself as the
doer, the actions being motivated by vasanas/
desires bind one by forging a chain of birth
and death in order to reap the fruits of
actions good or bad as the case may be.
When once one gets out of the notion of
doership, being impervious to desires and by
considering any action done by one as
emanating from the Totality and as being
done by the respective senses, oneself
remaining as the witness consciousness, one
will no longer be bound by one's actions.
Asthavakra, however, stresses as an
elaboration of the first technique that by
simply remaining in the firm conviction that
""I am the Pure conciousness'', you become
freed from all miseries and established in
happiness. Instead of remaining as the one