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CHAPTER III
THE MARVELLOUS FLIGHT
Just by hearing the instructions of
Ashtavakra, King Janaka's spiritual illumination
was instantaneous. What he attained bubbled
out of his mouth as a song of illumination,
repeatedly punctuated by pregnant
exclamations of ""Oh!'' (Ahmo). What followed
was all an expression by Janaka (supplemented
amply by Ashtavakra) of the inexpressible, a
description of the indescribable state of an
enlightened Buddha as a Jivanmukta remaining
established in the natural state of the Self. In
the Indian T.V. and in foreign countries too,
sometimes there is a programme called
Jugalbandi where two musical maestros of
different systems meet on a common platform
and sing the same Raga in their respective
traditions. In exactly similar way, both
Ashtavakra and Janaka speak alternately in
identical terms supplementing each other, the
former from his long established state of