Yoga Vasistha 6. Nairvana Prakarana
9. Ascertainment of True Knowledge
You said sir, that all formal bodies are reprcsentations of illusion or ignorance (Avidyā); but how do you account for the pure bodies of Hari, Hara and other divinities, and god-heads who are of pure essence in their embodied forms, and which cannot be the creation of our error or delusion.
8. Allegory of the Spreading Arbour of Ignorance
Hear me now relate to you Rāma, how this poisonous tree of ignorance has come to grow in this forest of the world, and to be situated by the side of the intellect, and how and when it came to blossom and bloom.
Chapter 7
Vasistha continued: These beauties that are so decorated with precious gems and jewels, and embellished with the strings of brilliant pearls, are as the playful billows in the milky ocean of the moon-beams of our fond desires.
Chapter 6
He who is so senseless as to take his body for the soul, is soon found to be upset by his unruly senses; as a charioteer is thrown down by his head-strong and restive horses.
Chapter 5
O my venerable guide! My retrospection of your sermons, has set my mind to perfect rest, and I see the traps and turmoils of this world before me, with a quite indifferent and phlegmatic mind.
4. Went of Anxiety in the Way of Salvation
Rāma! knowing your mind, understanding, egoism and all your senses, to be insensible of themselves, and deriving their sensibility from the intellect; say how can your living soul and the vital breaths, have any sensation of their own.
3. On the Unity and Universality of Brahma
As the countless waves, which are continually rising and falling in the Sea, are no other than its water assuming temporary forms to view; so the intellect exhibits the forms of endless worlds heaving in itself; and know, O sinless Rāma! this intellect to be your very self or soul.
2. On the Perfect Calm and Composure of the Mind
Then the shade of night, with her face as dark as that of the darkened moon, began to waste and wane away; as the darkness of ignorance and the mists of human wishes, vanish before the light of reason.
1. Description of the Evening and Breaking of the Assembly
Vālmīki says: You have heard the relation of the subject of Stoicism or composure of the soul; attend now to that of Nirvāna, which will teach you how to attain the final liberation of yourselves.
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