What Must This Liberation Be then? ( Ashtavakra Gita 1.1) - 27th September 2016

Okay, so he said this: knowledge to be achieved, detachment acquired, and liberation at the end. These three. So, what must this liberation be then? He said knowledge, which is the direct self-recognition, and detachment, which is the letting go of all our attachments. And we've spoken about this in Satsang often, isn't it? To recognize the truth and to drop the conditioning, both imply liberation.

Just the recognition, a momentary recognition, sometimes is not enough to drop all conditioning. And it is—at least I have not come across a case where conditioning can be dropped without the recognition of what is true happening. Some conditioning can be dropped, but not all, or a majority of it cannot be dropped unless there is a valid recognition. So it seems like the first two are the prerequisites for the third. How is knowledge to be achieved? Between the direct self-recognition to be found and detachment acquired, which is the dropping of the conditioning, you...