Ashtavakra Gita

I have no beginning, no middle, and no end; I am unbound, actionless, and by nature always free

Timelessness here isn't a claim about living forever, but about a self that was never inside time's framework of beginning, middle, and end to begin with.

Janaka's self-description in chapter twenty pushes past ordinary ideas of the soul's immortality, which still imagine a self that persists through time indefinitely. Instead he describes something with no beginning, middle, or end at all — not endless duration, but a complete absence of temporal boundaries in the first place, since time itself is one more thing appearing within awareness rather than something awareness is located in. Being "unbound" and "actionless" follows from the same logic: bondage and action both require a self positioned within cause and effect, and Janaka is describing a self that was never positioned there. Freedom, in this verse, isn't something attained at a particular moment but a description of what was always, timelessly, the case.

Ashtavakra Gita