The Journey of Knowing the True Self (Chinese Edition): A Detailed Commentary on the Ashtavakra Gita

Have you ever had that moment — life looks fine on the outside, but something inside feels off? Or you keep getting stuck in the same emotional loop, and no amount of self-help seems to reach the root of it?

This book speaks directly to that.

The Ashtavakra Gita is a short ancient Indian scripture — just 298 verses of dialogue between the sage Ashtavakra and King Janaka. Yet in those verses, it delivers the core insight of Advaita Vedanta with startling clarity: the “me” you think you are is not who you actually are. When you stop identifying with your body, your emotions, and your thoughts, the sense of being trapped begins to loosen.

This edition is a detailed Chinese-language commentary on that classic. Professor Wang Zhicheng of Zhejiang University, who has spent years translating and studying yoga philosophy texts, worked from the English translation by Swami Nityaswarupananda (a senior scholar of the Ramakrishna Mission) and added verse-by-verse notes and explanations in Chinese, making the original Sanskrit philosophy accessible to ordinary readers-34. Published by The Commercial Press in 2024 as part of their Yoga Philosophy Classics series, which also includes the Yoga Sutras, the Upanishads, and Karma Yoga-73.

Who this book is for:

• Long-time yoga practitioners who want to understand the philosophy behind the poses

• Readers who have tried the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads but found them dense, and want something shorter and more direct

• Anyone who has genuinely wrestled with questions like “Who am I?”, “Why do I suffer?”, and “How do I actually let go?”

• Fans of the Platform Sutra, Krishnamurti, or Eckhart Tolle who want to see the closest Indian equivalent