AVG 8.2

Chapter 8 (Reflections on Bondage and Liberation) Verse 2
तदामुक्तिर्यदा चित्तं न वाञ्छति न शोचति ।
न मुञ्चति न गृह्णाति न हृष्यति न कुप्यति ॥ ८-२॥

PURPORT:
That is the state of liberation when the mind
and the patterns of thought within
does not desire nor mourn nor reject
nor comply nor exult nor is resentful.

TRANSLITERATION:
तदा मुक्तिः यदा चित्तम् न वाञ्छति न शोचति ।
tadā muktiḥ yadā cittam na vāñchati na śocati ।
न मुञ्चति न गृह्णाति न हृष्यति न कुप्यति ॥ ८-२॥
na muñcati na gṛhṇāti na hṛṣyati na kupyati ॥ 8-2॥

MEANING:
tadā (तदा) = then
muktiḥ (मुक्तिः) = liberation/salvation/freedom
yadā (यदा) = when
cittam (चित्तम्) = mind
na (न) = not
vāñchati (वाञ्छति) = strive after/desire/wish/hanker
na (न) = not
śocati (शोचति) = lament/mourn/grieves।
na (न) = not
muñcati (मुञ्चति) = reject/renounce/repudiate
na (न) = not
gṛhṇāti (गृह्णाति) = accept/allow/comply
na (न) = not
hṛṣyati (हृष्यति) = exult/thrilled/rejoice
na (न) = not
kupyati (कुप्यति) = is resentful of/is angry at/is offended with ॥ 8-2॥

COMMENT:
The previous verse in this chapter dealt with the idea of attachment and bondage. This verse inverts the argument of the previous and presents each of the conceptual ideas developed as it applies to the state of being aware and liberated - a state where the mind stops wanting and does not descend into anxiety because the seeking individual has a better understanding of themselves.
In this particular sense, the seeker who resolves to attain this state as described by Ashtavakra does not really have to do anything to be who they are or to reach that supposed 'lofty goal'. Leanings towards goal oriented spiritual practice, unchanging dualisms that explain goals on the basis of subject/object, cause/effect, salvation/damnation etc. only further confuse and polarize the seekers mind as the seeker now tries to apply these concepts to their practice and thus tend to lose their natural equanimity. In this sense, the path towards that sense of freedom and equanimity is not via the performance of chanting mantras or incessantly scheduled prayers or yogic calisthenics or pilgrimages to holy lands; the path is simply to look within oneself and start to slowly realize that each one of us are free innately.
The constant practice of looking outside of ourselves and searching, clinging and grasping onto entities, concepts and ideas that have no permanent foundation within this ever-changing cosmos is the reason why we do not get the time to look within. One realizes that one has always been free and the signs of such a change include the fact that once the individual experiences this state of liberation (however fleeting or however prolonged), on analysis, it is seen that the entities, concepts and ideas of the world has not really changed, the world has not fundamentally changed, it is the individual and how the individual chooses to deal with those same ideas and concepts that seem to have changed from the point to view of the individual's perspective.
The looking, understanding and the change has to come from within - no amount of austerities or other purported forms of attaining salvation commonly espoused by godmen will help - in fact, in many cases, such practices only serve the opposite - they steer the individual away from their own inner luminous selves. In short, self-flagellation in the name of seeking truth never helped and never will - not only does one torture their bodies and minds, but they also imperil whatever understanding one had garnered.