Ashtavakra
Listen online
View page note
Please go to your device settings and ensure that the Text-to-Speech engine is configured properly. Download the language data for Hindi or any other languages you prefer for the best experience.
Rishi Kahod was studying
Vedas. His child was in his mother’s
womb. The son said, “Father, Wisdom
is not in the Vedas, it’s in the soul.”
Rishi said, “Why do you say so?” Son
said, “When we point our fingers
towards the moon, the fingers don’t
become the moon. Vedas are the
direction to the knowledge.” Rishi
got angry and cursed the child to be
deformed from eight points in the
body (Ashtavakra). Ashtavakra said,
“The deformed body is not going to
deter my inner peace.”
