Rāma said - Tell me, O chief of the sages! what cause is it that leads to our misconception of the mind, how it is produced and what is the source of its illusion.
Vālmīki related- While Vasistha the leading sage, was thus going on with his lecture without interruption, the whole assembly was intent upon listening to it with a fixed tone and tenor of their minds.
Rāma said- It is even so as you have said, that the mind is a pure essence, and has no connection with the earth, and other material substances; and that it is verily Brahmā itself.
Vasistha resumed: Hear me Rāma; now relate to you the narrative of one Ākāsaja or air-born Brāhmana, which will be a jewel to your ears, and enable you the better to understand the drift of the book of Genesis.
Bondage consists in our belief of the reality of the visible world (and our relation with its phenomena Gloss). So our release depends on the negation of phenomenals. Now hear me tell you how to get rid of the visible (fetters of our minds).
