
Ashtavakra Gita Through the Parts.
An Internal Family Systems (IFS) Journey Between the Many and the One
The Ashtavakra Gita is one of the most uncompromising texts on Self-realization ever written.
It does not comfort the ego.
It does not negotiate with identity.
It speaks directly to what is real.
And yet, when approached too quickly, its clarity can feel alienating, even dismissive of the very human experience of inner struggle.
This journey offers a different way in.
Rather than bypassing the inner world, we approach Ashtavakra through it.
Rather than silencing parts, we listen to them.
Rather than forcing transcendence, we allow realization to unfold through relationship.
Through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, the dialogue between King Janaka and the sage Ashtavakra becomes something intimate and alive, a conversation between parts that seek freedom and the Self that already is free.
Across these chapters, we explore themes of bondage, release, renunciation, peace, and Self-abidance not as abstract philosophy, but as lived inner movements. Each teaching is met with curiosity rather than force. Each insight is allowed to land where it belongs, without requiring any part of you to disappear.
This is not a path of self-improvement.
It is not a project of fixing.
It is an invitation to notice what remains when striving falls away.
Let this series be a meeting place where the many are welcomed, and the One is remembered.
Not as an idea to believe in, but as a presence that has never left.
Take your time.
Move slowly.
Nothing here needs to be achieved.
Truth does not require effort.
It only asks to be seen.
Ashtavakra Through the Parts
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1. Self-Realization
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2. The Knowledge of Truth
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3. The Test of Realization
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4. The Radiance of Self-Realization
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5. The Four Paths of Dissolution
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6. The Higher Knowing
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7. The Nature of the Self
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8. Bondage and Freedom
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9. Renunciation and Release
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10. Quietude and Aloneness
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11. Wisdom and Tranquility
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12. That Which Simply Is
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13. The Natural State
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14. Peace Beyond Desire
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15. Knowledge of the Supreme Self
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16. Abidance in the Self
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17. The True Knower
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18. Beyond Action and Knowing
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19. Liberated in Life (Jivanmukta​
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