Aṣṭāvakra offers an analogy: just as renouncing the illusion of personal doership (kartṛtva) reveals the true Creator (kartā), so too does abandoning the identification with the body (dehābhimāna) reveal one’s true nature as Supreme Consciousness (parā caitanya). The logic is precise — misidentification works in only one direction. You cannot be both the limited and the limitless. Once the false identification drops, what remains is not something new to be acquired but something that was always there, merely obscured by the wrong assumption. This verse directly challenges the karma-oriented worldview that dominates much of Hindu thought, asserting that liberation comes not from right action but from right understanding.