Category Archives: Ashtavakra Gita in Light of the Unborn

The Ashtavakra Gita, (likely composed after the Bhagavad Gita but before the start of the common era) or The Ashtavakra Samhita as it’s sometimes called, is a short treatise on Advaita Vedanta, ascribed to the great sage Ashtavakra. A text most Monistic in temperament. It is written in dialogue form between King Janaka, the father of Sita, and his guru, Ashtavakra. Some scholars assert that this dialogue format is just a literary device; be that as it may, most works of this genre utilize such an approach as it’s clearly a meeting between master and disciple, with the emphasis here on the singular device of Ashtavakra’s wonderful mystical expressions. read more