Sthiti Prakarana

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Yoga Vasistha 4. Sthiti Prakarana

4. Treating of the Germ of Existence


Therefore the mind is the same with the world, and the world is identic with the mind; owing to their intimate and inseparable connection with one another. The world however is lost by the loss of the mind; but the mind is not lost by destruction of the world. (Because the thoughts thereof are imprinted in the mind).

3. Eternity of the World


All intelligent beings, including Brahmā and all others of the past age, that obtain their nirvāna or extinction, are of course absorbed in One Brahmā, (and have lost their remembrance of everything concerning their past lives).

2. The Receptacle of the Mundane Egg


Without co-operation of the necessary causes, there can be no vegetation of the seed, as no barren, woman is ever known or seen to bring forth an offspring, notwithstanding the seed is contained in the womb.

1. On Genesis and Epigenesis


The variety of creation is described as the working of the mind, and the existence of one Brahmā only, is established in refutation of the Atomic and Materialistic doctrines of Nyāya and Sāmkhya philosophy.