No one is born liberated, no one dies liberated anywhere; no one breathes as liberated, no one attains liberation, nor is anyone liberated at all.

Vāsiṣṭha here unfolds the logic of affirmative non-dualism with implacable rigor. Were liberation to entail a subject who attains freedom, an agent acting upon an object, it would remain inscribed within the very dualistic structure that constitutes ignorance (avidyā). The Aṣṭāvakra Gītā articulates this principle in nearly identical terms: “You are neither the doer nor the enjoyer.” Freedom is no temporal event; it is the timeless nature of that which has always been free. The yogī who has transcended identification with the body-mind does not “experience” liberation as a novel state, but recognizes what has always been the case. Such recognition adds nothing and removes nothing; it merely unveils.