Great Throughts Treasury

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Ashtavakra NULL

Ancient Indian Sage, Ashta means eight. Vakra means bend or deformity

"The phenomenal world is like an empty jar (enclosing Space, which nevertheless is boundless). Thus known, phenomenality need be neither renounced, accepted, nor destroyed."