Ashtavakra Gita 6.1 -

Here is a very rare combination of a Sad-guru and Sat-śishya, Sage Ashtavakra and king Janaka. As profound and compulsive is the Sage’s teaching, so deep and wholesome is the disciple’s reception and consequent perception. The Sage said: “Dissolve everything arising in the mind and intelligence”. But Janaka responds stating: “I find nothing verily to accept, renounce or dissolve at all!”

Why? Because, “I am infinite like space, indivisible too. The world is but like a jar. In the infinite, there cannot be any limitation or limited product like the world. How can I think of accepting, rejecting or dissolving something, whose existence is not established? Will it not be like accepting, renouncing or dissolving a dream? Dream itself is an unreality. It comes of its own accord, goes also alike. Where is the question of our interfering with such a phenomenon?”

The best way will be to abandon all the triple ideas of acceptance, renunciation and dissolution altogether. The Self alone is. Nothing else on any ground is thinkable. So stand firmly on the Self, totally indifferent to all other propositions, needs or persuasions. A state of practical transcendence indeed!