Ashtavakra Samhita /24

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<heading>CHAPTER I
 
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<heading>INSTRUCTION ON SELF-REALIZATION
 
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<verse text="M">जनक उवाच ।
 

कथं ज्ञानमवाप्नोति कथं मुक्तिर्भविष्यति ।

वैराग्यं च कथं प्राप्तमेतद् ब्रूहि मम प्रभो ॥१॥
 
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<p text="G">जनक: Janaka उवाच said :
 

कथथं How (<flag>लोक. </flag>man) ज्ञानम् knowledge भअवाप्नोति acqui-

res कथं how मुक्ति: liberation भविष्यति will be कथं how
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&apos;वैराग्य'&apos; renunciation प्राप्तं is secured च and प्रभो O Lord

एतत् this मम me ब्र ूरूहि telil.
 
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<p text="T">Janaka asked:
 

1. How can knowledge'<ref>1</ref> be acquired?

How can liberation<ref>²</ref> be attained? How is

renunciation<ref>3</ref> possible?---Tell me this, O

Lord.
 
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<footnote>[1 <italic>Knowledge</italic>---Realization of the identity of the

individual self and Paramâtman or Brahman which

is Existence, Knowledge and Bliss absolute.
 
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<footnote>2 <italic>Liberation</italic>---Freedom from ignorance, all bond-

ages and limitations,―the effect of Knowledge

mentioned above, i.e. the complete destruction of all

misery and attainment of supreme bliss.
 
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<footnote>3 <italic>Renunciation</italic>---Non-attachment to the enjoy-

ment of the objects of this world as well as of the

world beyond. This forms the most important of
 
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