Once upon a time there was a great spiritual master named "Ashtavakra", who is responsible for a huge spiritual movement. Because of a curse from his father, he was born with eight different deformities of the body (two feet, two knees, two hands, the chest and the head) (a type of scoliosis). The name “Ashtavakra” in Sanskrit means “one with eight types of deformities in his body.” His father, Kahola was also a notorious scholar and sage and he used to narrate various scriptural teachings to his son in his fetal state when he was still in his mother’s womb. Ashtavakra also gained profound knowledge of the self due to those teachings.
Unfortunately, One day he pointed to the mispronunciation done by his father by saying "hum" from his mother's womb. This made his father furious and he cursed the child to be born with eight types of deformities. Though we know that both the internal and…
