Chapter-12, Verse 8

Ashtavakra Gita Verse 12.8

एवमेव कृतं येन स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ। एवमेव स्वभावो यः स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ॥८॥

8. Blessed is the man who has accomplished this. Blessed is he who thus fulfils himself by his Nature Divine. 

Almost tapping on his own back, as it were, in the ecstasy of his ‘infinite satisfaction’, Janaka blesses himself through his hallelujah for the man who has attained Godhood even while living (Jīvanmukta). 

Śaṅkara defines  Videhamukti and  Jīvanmuktias follows: (brahmaivāhamasmītyaparokṣa jñānena nikhilakarmabandha vinirmukto jīvanmuktaḥ. dehapātānantaraṁ muktiḥ videhamuktiḥ) When through sādhanā a seeker comes to a stage when all sādhanās drop off in his own achieved experience of the Infinite Self, he is a unique individual, who though bodily lives amidst us, has already become the universal Reality. 

The experience of the Higher, in him, is spontaneous, effortless, natural. Nothing more can be said of him. He is verily a God living amidst us. He alone is the blessed one! He alone is the blessed one!!

End of Chapter-12