Chapter 3 · Verse 17

सर्वं ब्रह्ममयं ज्ञात्वा निर्द्वन्द्वो निर्भयो भव

sarvaṃ brahma-mayaṃ jñātvā nirdvandvo nirbhayo bhava

Knowing that all is Brahman, be free from pairs of opposites (dvandva) and without fear (nirbhaya). There is nothing to lose and nothing to gain, because fullness is already the case. Aṣṭāvakra presents the practical consequence of this knowledge: the one who sees Brahman everywhere no longer fears or covets. The dissolution of dvandva is not merely an intellectual understanding but the lived freedom of advaita, in which all conflict is seen as the play of a single reality.