King Janaka asked Master Ashtavakra a simple and important question — how can we be happy? And Master Ashtavakra, whose body was bent (vakra) in eight places (ashta) delivered a song of a reply, the Ashtavakra Gita.
Simple truths, delivered simply. In verse 11, Master Ashtavakra states –
If one thinks of oneself as free, one is free, and if one thinks of oneself as bound, one is bound. Here this saying is true, “Thinking makes it so.”
The text describes the tenets of classical Vedanta concisely, in the same dialogue style that the more famous Bhagavad Gita follows.
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