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Sage Teachings

Wisdom from enlightened sages

79 dialogues

Final Teaching on Liberation

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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Liberation cannot be achieved, known, or transmitted—it is simply the recognition that bondage was never real. There is no one to be liberated because the Self was always free.

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You Are Already Free

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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Liberation is not an achievement but a recognition - the Self is already free and only imagines itself bound.

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The Self Alone Exists

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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The Self alone truly exists; the world, body, and mind are appearances within awareness like waves in the ocean—never separate from their source, never diminishing its infinite nature.

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The Body is Not the Self

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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The body appears within awareness like a dream; the Self witnesses the body but is not confined to or defined by it.

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Bondage and Liberation are Illusions

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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Both bondage and liberation are concepts in the mind; the Self is beyond all such dualities and was never in either state.

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Bondage is Desire for Experience

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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Bondage is nothing but desiring experience to be different from what it is; liberation is not gaining something new but recognizing that the Self is already complete and lacks nothing.

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Indifference to Liberation

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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True liberation is not gaining freedom but becoming indifferent to both bondage and liberation, recognizing that the Self was never bound and needs no release.

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I Am Infinite Like the Ocean

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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The Self is like the infinite ocean - thoughts and experiences are waves that arise and dissolve without affecting the boundless nature of awareness.

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Janaka's Awakening

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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True awakening is not learning something new but recognizing what was always present - the Self discovers it was never lost.

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Rest in Your Own Nature

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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True rest is simply abiding as awareness itself, without effort to maintain or achieve anything - this is natural freedom.

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Test of the Realized One

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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The realized one is marked by natural freedom from attachment, fear, and ego - not by withdrawal from life but by clear seeing.

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The Liberated One's Way

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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The liberated one transcends both enjoyment and renunciation, living naturally without method or effort, responding to life spontaneously.

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There is Only Brahman

Nidagha & Ribhu

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Reality is not divided into the spiritual and material—there is only one seamless Brahman appearing as everything, including the apparent seeker and the apparent search.

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The World is Brahman

Nidagha & Ribhu

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True renunciation is not leaving the world but seeing through its apparent separateness—recognizing that the world was never other than Brahman.

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Beyond Meditation

Nidagha & Ribhu

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Meditation serves to quiet the mind that believes it is separate, but ultimate realization comes when even the meditator-meditation-meditated structure is seen through.

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The Non-Dual Reality

Nidagha & Ribhu

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The trinity of individual soul, world, and God is not three realities in relationship but one Brahman appearing as the drama of three.

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Silence is the Ultimate Teaching

Nidagha & Ribhu

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The highest truth cannot be spoken—silence is not the absence of teaching but its fullest expression, for Brahman is beyond all words yet intimately present as the silence from which they arise.

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Nothing Ever Happened

Nidagha & Ribhu

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In ultimate truth, no creation, bondage, or liberation ever occurred—Brahman has eternally been what it is, and the appearance of a journey is itself part of the dream.

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All Paths Lead Nowhere

Nidagha & Ribhu

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No path leads to Brahman because you are already Brahman—all paths are not journeys to truth but exhaustions of the illusion that you are somewhere else.

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Song of Perfect Contentment

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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Perfect contentment is not an achievement but a recognition that nothing was ever lacking; the Self is naturally at peace, and all seeking was simply the Self temporarily forgetting its completeness.

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