That we do not have to pray that it come to us, That we are one with the omnipresence of God The goal of every word in the Ashtavakra Gita is to trigger Self-realization. The Ashtavakra Gita is an ancient spiritual document of great purity and power. The body is nothing, the Self is everything. The moral here is that even the ugliest form is filled with God's radiance. His name literally means " eight bends", indicating the eight physical handicaps he was born with. Very little is definitely known about Ashtavakra. The Ashtavakra Gita elucidates the meaning of the Supreme Reality, Brahman, the self and Atman (Self, soul) and Maya ("an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem"). It is written as a dialogue between King Janaka, the father of Sita, and his guru, Ashtavakra. Though some claim it was written later, either in the eighth century by a follower of Shankara, or as late as the fourteenth century during a resurgence of Shankara's teaching. It was composed before the common era, most likely between 500-400BC. The Ashtavakra Gita is a short treatise ascribed to the great sage Ashtavakra. The text is an instruction for achieving the self-realization and Oneness.
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