Janaka: How can knowledge be acquired? How can liberation be attained? How is Renunciation possible?

Astvakra: Freedom comes from Renunciation and the ability to

renounce comes from knowledge. What is this knowledge-

Knowledge that we are not the earth, the water, nor fire, nor air, nor space, we are the self which is the witness of all of these.

This knowledge comes to you when you seek forgiveness, are sincere, and are every moment of the day in an attitude of surrender, where the ego is not and you drop all ideas of being the doer of all actions. You become the seer instead. A natural Detachment, Renunciation follows. And with it a feeling of liberation and peace.

You will then experience the Bliss that comes from the knowledge that self is all pervading, all seeing and is distinct from your body and mind. And you are that self itself. A witness.

As you detach yourself from your body and mind so you detach yourself from its physical and emotional and thought manifestations.

Renouncing ourselves from the external and the internal manifestations that we see, feel, and think, the Self is free. You pervade this universe and this universe exists in you.

Unconditioned, formless, immutable undisturbed you are consciousness alone, a perennial. Just as the same space is inside and outside a Jar and on breaking the Jar space becomes one, so break the barrier imposed by your small self and realise that the all pervasive Brahman (Self, Atman) exists in all things.



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