Aṣṭāvakra declares that when one has the ego sense and the self-conceit towards Liberation – ‘I am liberated’ – or when one has a sense of possession even towards his body – ‘this is my body’ – such an individual is neither a jñānī nor a yogin. As he has not freed himself from his sense of ‘I-ness’ and ‘my-ness’, he should get necessarily tossed about, by his own likes and dislikes, in a world of restless miseries.
