# Vasistha's Yoga  ## Metadata - Author: [[Swami Venkatesananda]] - Full Title: Vasistha's Yoga - Category: #books ## Highlights - The cosmic utters OM and by pure will creates the various objects. Just as the creator was willed into being, even so is a worm brought into being: because the latter is caught up in impurity, its action is trivial. The distinction is illusory. In truth, there is no creation, and hence no division at all. ([Location 2059](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2059)) - Like all wicked people, she rejoices in others’ sorrow. ([Location 2125](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2125)) - When two enlightened men meet, their hearts mingle in peace and bliss, even as the waters of two mountain streams mix at their confluence. Moreover, who but a wise man can maintain his calm while faced with almost certain death? ([Location 2225](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2225)) - the mind, in a state of ignorance, imagines bondage. The bondage exists only in that state of ignorance. Just as the dream-objects vanish when the dreamer wakes up, all these hallucinations known as bondage and liberation do not exist in the eyes of the enlightened. ([Location 2699](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2699)) - He who does not allow his mind to roam in objects of pleasure is able to master it. Even as one who is bound to a pillar does not move, the mind of a noble man does not move from the reality: he alone is a human being, the others are worms. He attains to the supreme being by constant meditation. ([Location 2856](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2856)) - Only when one severs the very root of the mind with the weapon of non-conceptualisation, can one reach the absolute Brahman which is omnipresent, supreme peace. ([Location 2867](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2867)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - feelings ‘This is I’ and ‘This is mine’ are the mind; when they are removed, the mind ceases to be. Then one becomes fearless. Weapons like swords generate fear; the weapon (wisdom) that destroys egotism generates fearlessness. ([Location 2876](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2876)) - The restlessness of the mind itself is known as ignorance or nescience; it is the seat of tendencies, predispositions or conditioning—destroy this through enquiry, as also by the firm abandonment of contemplation of the objects of sense-pleasure. ([Location 2889](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2889)) - , it is desire that is ignorance or mental conditioning: and the coming to an end of desire is liberation. This happens when there is no movement of thought in the mind. ([Location 2944](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2944)) - That which was and therefore is now, is the absolute Brahman—contemplation of this bestows peace, for that Brahman is peace. One should not contemplate anything else at any time and in any manner anywhere. ([Location 2965](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=2965)) - ‘Why do I continue to be a fool? I shall seek holy men and scriptures, having cultivated dispassion’—such a wish is the first state. Thereupon one engages in the practice of enquiry (direct observation). With all these, there arises non-attachment, and the mind becomes subtle and transparent: this is the third state. When these three are practised, there arises in the seeker a natural turning away from sense-pleasures and there is natural dwelling in truth: this is the fourth state. When all these are well practised, there is total non-attachment and at the same time a conviction in the nature of truth: this is the fifth state. Then one rejoices in one’s own self, the perception of duality and diversity both within oneself and outside oneself ceases, and the efforts that one made at the inspiration of others bear fruition in direct spiritual experience. After this, there is no other support, no division, no diversity, and self-knowledge is spontaneous, natural and therefore unbroken: this is the seventh, transcendental state. This is the state of one who is liberated even while living here. Beyond this is the state of one who has transcended even the body (the ). ([Location 3029](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3029)) - The highest state of consciousness can be attained by all, even by animals and by primitive men, by those who have a body and even by disembodied beings, for it involves only the rise of wisdom. ([Location 3041](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3041)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - Note: Soteriology good wis rise, bad not - I have investigated the truth concerning the mind for a very long time, O , and have found none: only the infinite consciousness exists. ([Location 3124](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3124)) - By attaining knowledge of the self, which is infinite consciousness, you will go beyond grief, delusion, birth and death, happiness and unhappiness. The self being one and undivided, you have no relatives and therefore no sorrow born of such false relationship. The self being one and undivided, there is nothing else worth attaining or desiring. This self undergoes no change and does not die: when the pot is broken, the space within it is not broken. ([Location 3135](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3135)) - Encouraged by Yama (Time), the sage thereupon entered into the eye of wisdom in order to behold the life of his son. In an instant, he saw in his own intelligence the entire story of his son’s transmigration. Wonderstruck at what he saw, he re-entered his own body. ([Location 3277](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3277)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - This radiant young man appeared to have reached total quiescence of mind in which the play of thoughts and counter-thoughts had ceased. He was absolutely pure, like a crystal that is not interested even in reflecting what is around it! There was no thought in his mind of either ‘this is to be obtained’ or ‘this is to be avoided’. ([Location 3346](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3346)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - It is only because of forgetfulness of truth that the confusion arises that the unreal is real. By the purification of the life-force () and by the knowledge of that which is beyond this or life-force, one gains knowledge of all that is to be known concerning the activities of the mind as well as the basis for the succession of births. ([Location 3437](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3437)) - But, when the life-force is not thus diverted by the mind and body, it remains rooted in peace within the heart. There is no movement of consciousness in the nerves of the body nor does the life-force activate the senses. However, that consciousness which is awake even in deep sleep and which is also the light that shines in waking and dreaming, is the transcendental consciousness, ([Location 3503](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3503)) - Therefore one should abandon all cravings for pleasure and attain wisdom. Only the mind that has been well disciplined really experiences happiness. The captive king, when freed, is delighted with a piece of bread; the king who has not been subjected to captivity does not enjoy as much, even should it be the annexation of another kingdom. Hence, the wise man grinds his teeth and strives to conquer his mind and senses: such conquest is far greater than conquest of external foes. ([Location 3588](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3588)) - Thus you see the disastrous results that arise from non-wisdom. You see how the invincible demons were utterly defeated and disgraced on account of their ego-sense, which gave rise to fear in their hearts. The deadly creeper of worldliness sprouts from the seed of the ego-sense. Therefore, O , abandon this ego-sense with all the strength that lies within; and by being established in the conviction: ‘I is nothing’, be happy. The one infinite consciousness, which is of the nature of pure bliss, is eclipsed by the shadow of the ego-sense. ([Location 3656](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3656)) - The reality is the one infinite consciousness which does not undergo any change. ([Location 3674](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3674)) - However, the higher form of ‘I-ness’ which gives rise to the feeling ‘I am one with the entire universe; there is nothing apart from me’, is the understanding of the enlightened person. Another type of ‘I-ness’ is when one feels that the ‘I’ is extremely subtle and atomic in nature and therefore different from and independent of everything in this universe: this, too, is unobjectionable, being conducive to liberation. ([Location 3750](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3750)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - Note: Oneness of continuity of mellow experience (equanimity with others who have manifested potentials) - But the ‘I-ness’ that has been described earlier on is one which identifies the self with the body: this is to be abandoned firmly. By the persistent cultivation of the higher form of ‘I-ness’ the lower form is eradicated. Having kept the lower ‘I-ness’ in check, one should resort to the higher form of ‘I-ness’, persistently generating in oneself the feeling: ‘I am the All’ or ‘I am extremely subtle and independent’. In due course even this higher form of ‘I-ness’ should be completely abandoned. Then one may either engage oneself in all activity or remain in seclusion: there is no fear of downfall for him. ([Location 3753](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3753)) - Whenever the ego-sense raised its head, they subdued it with self-enquiry (‘Who am I’). They were therefore free from fear of death, devoted to appropriate action in the present, free from all attachment, devoid of the feeling ‘I did this’, intent on doing the work allotted to them by the master , free from desire and from aversion and endowed with equal vision. The army of the gods was quickly defeated by them. ([Location 3766](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3766)) - mind. Hence, to the ignorant and conditioned person there is the notion ‘I do this’ whether he is doing something or doing nothing; but such a notion does not arise in the enlightened or unconditioned. ([Location 3866](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3866)) - Bound to their own countless desires and attachments and limited by their own mental conditioning, they migrate from one body to another. They will continue to do so, till they perceive the truth concerning their own self which is infinite consciousness. After attaining this self-knowledge, they are liberated from delusion and they do not return to this plane of birth and death any more. ([Location 3980](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=3980)) - When he begins to enquire into his origin, his true nature is revealed to him; and he is liberated from self-limitation. ([Location 4002](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4002)) - Knowing that the entire universe including one’s wealth, wife, son, etc. are nothing but the creation of the jugglery of the mind, one does not grieve when they are lost, nor does one feel elated when they prosper. On the other hand, it may be proper to feel unhappy when they prosper; for such prosperity may intensify one’s ignorance. Hence, that which generates attachment and craving in the fool, generates detachment and cool indifference in the wise. ([Location 4024](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4024)) - Even if one engages oneself in every other sort of spiritual endeavour, and even if one has the gods themselves as one’s teachers, and even if one were in heaven or any other region, liberation is not had except through the cessation of all notions. The real, the unreal and the admixture of these two are all but notions and naught else; and notions themselves are neither real nor unreal. What then shall we call real in this universe? Hence, my son, give up these notions, thoughts and intentions. When they cease, the mind naturally turns to what is truly beyond the mind—the infinite consciousness. ([Location 4144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4144)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - He who has thus renounced everything from his heart, he indeed is the supreme Lord, whether he continues to live an active life or whether he rests in contemplation all the time. To him neither action nor inaction is of any use. O , I have examined all the scriptures and investigated the truth; there is no salvation without the total renunciation of all notions or ideas or mental conditioning. ([Location 4199](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4199)) - by the control of the life-force the mind is also restrained: even as the shadow ceases when the substance is removed, the mind ceases when the life-force is restrained. It is because of the movement of the life-force that one remembers the experiences one had elsewhere; it is known as mind because it thus experiences movements of life-force. The life-force is restrained by the following means: by dispassion, by the practice of (breath-control) or by the practice of enquiry into the cause of the movement of the life-force, by the ending of sorrow through intelligent means and by the direct knowledge or experience of the supreme truth. ([Location 4603](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4603)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - Others who have the direct experience of egolessness are one with Brahman and have risen beyond body-consciousness. However, both of them are liberated and both have become one with Brahman. He is considered a liberated sage who is not swayed by the desirable and the undesirable, who lives in this world and functions though inwardly totally untouched by the world, as if he is in deep sleep. ([Location 4711](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4711)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - Once the realisation that ‘I am the self of all’ has arisen, one does not again fall into error or sorrow. ([Location 4731](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4731)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Who is a relative here and to whom, and who is an enemy to whom: by the wish of the Lord of all beings, all are all to all at all times! This river of relationship is flowing on constantly. ([Location 4769](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4769)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Hence, for restoring peace to the mind, remove the disturbing cause, which is hope or craving. ([Location 4844](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4844)) - Tags: [[pink]] - When the mind is conquered, everything is conquered. Remember that the mind is almost invincible, except through intelligent practice. ([Location 4902](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4902)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The very best intelligent means by which the mind can be subdued is complete freedom from desire, hope or expectation in regard to all objects at all times. It is by this means that this powerful elephant (the mind) can be subdued. ([Location 4905](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4905)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - continued: Only by right exertion can dispassion be attained; ([Location 4911](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4911)) - Even so, whatever brings about total equanimity and the cessation of joy and sorrow is also referred to as divine grace. ([Location 4913](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4913)) - When you turn completely away from the pursuit of pleasure, then you attain to the supreme state through the means of enquiry. When the self is completely purified, then you will be firmly established in the supreme peace. You will never again fall into the mire of conceptualisation which is the cause of sorrow. Though you continue to live, you will remain freed from all hopes and expectations. You are pure! Salutations to you, O embodiment of auspiciousness!! ([Location 4944](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=4944)) - Tags: [[orange]] - OM is the one non-dual consciousness devoid of all perversion. ([Location 5235](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5235)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[orange]] - Now, you are the master of your senses and your mind; and you enjoy the greatest delight. ([Location 5347](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5347)) - Tags: [[pink]] - When thus both the notions of ‘I do’ and ‘I experience’ have ceased, there remains only peace; when that peace is firmly grounded, there is liberation. ([Location 5448](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5448)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Only the ignorant think that there is sorrow when there is body and that there is no sorrow once the body is abandoned. ([Location 5463](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5463)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Sin is only ignorance and it is destroyed by enquiry; hence one should never abandon enquiry. ([Location 5484](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5484)) - Tags: [[orange]] - One may revolve on the wheel of birth and death for a thousand lifetimes: this will not cease till one has fully mastered the mind and till that mind has come to a state of supreme peace and equanimity. No one in the three worlds, not even the gods or the members of the trinity, can save a man from the torments of a wayward mind. Hence, O , abandon all the illusory appearances of objective phenomena, whether they appear to be within you or outside you. Contemplate the sole reality of consciousness for the cessation of repeated birth. Taste the pure consciousness (which is, in truth, the very essence of all that exists) by resolutely renouncing objectivity of consciousness (all the concepts and percepts) and contemplating the changeless consciousness which is infinite. You will surely cross this river of world-appearance and rebirth. ([Location 5541](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5541)) - Tags: [[orange]] - Know ‘I am the all’ and live in the waking state as if in deep sleep. Be freed from conditions known as duality and non-duality: and remain in a state of equilibrium which is a state of pure consciousness and freedom. Realise that this cosmic consciousness is indivisible into ‘I and ‘the other’; ([Location 5734](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5734)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The notions of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ make the mind dense and ignorant. This is further aggravated by old age, sorrow, ambitions, psychological distress, efforts to acquire and to abandon, attachments, greed, lust for wealth and sex and by the enjoyment of sense-pleasures, all of which are based on ignorance and delusion. ([Location 5756](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5756)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Even as a terrible weapon is encountered and destroyed by a more powerful weapon, tranquilise the mind with the help of the mind itself. For ever abandon every form of mental agitation. Remain at peace within yourself like a tree freed from the disturbance caused by monkeys. ([Location 5779](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5779)) - Tags: [[pink]] - I have carefully investigated, I have observed everything from the tips of my toes to the top of my head: and I have not found anything of which I could say, ‘This I am’. Who is ‘I’? I am the all-pervading consciousness which is itself not an object of knowledge or knowing and is free from selfhood. I am that which is indivisible, which has no name or change, which is beyond all concepts of unity and diversity, which is beyond measure (small and big) and other than which naught else is. Hence, O mind, I abandon you who are the source of sorrow. ([Location 5831](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5831)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Hence, O mind, abandon this perception of diversity and realise the unreality of your own independence from the infinite consciousness: that is liberation. ([Location 5847](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5847)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - To me now the mind, body and the senses are playthings. Purity, total fulfilment of all desires (hence, their absence), friendliness to all, truthfulness, wisdom, tranquility and blissfulness, sweetness of speech, supreme magnanimity, lustrousness, one-pointedness, realisation of cosmic unity, fearlessness, absence of divided-consciousness, non-perversity—these are my constant companions. Since at all times everything everywhere happens in every manner, in me there is no desire or aversion towards anything, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Since all delusion has come to an end, since the mind has ceased to be and all evil thoughts have vanished, I rest peacefully in my own self. ([Location 5909](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=5909)) - Tags: [[pink]] - He who sees the self as the transcendent being or as the immanent being (as the self of all) is established in equanimity. ([Location 6009](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6009)) - Tags: [[blue]] [[favorite]] [[pink]] - But consciousness is consciousness only, whether it thinks of itself as lord or as a little ! ([Location 6046](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6046)) - Tags: [[orange]] - He had realised that ‘All this is but the diverse manifestation of consciousness’: he was therefore peaceful in both pain and pleasure, having attained to the fullness of understanding. ([Location 6102](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6102)) - Tags: [[orange]] - That state in which the mind is freed from its characteristic movement of thought and in which there is only the experience of peace, is known as ‘deep sleep in wakefulness’. He who is in it lives a non-volitional life, freed from every type of mental distraction or distress, unconcerned with a short or a long life. When this same state of ‘deep sleep in wakefulness’ matures, it is known as or the fourth state. Firmly established in that, the sage perceives the universe as if it is a cosmic playground and life in it is a cosmic dance. Utterly freed from sorrow and fear and from delusion of world-appearance, he who is established in the does not fall into error once again. He is forever immersed in bliss. He goes even beyond this to the great, inexpressible state of supreme bliss. That is considered the state beyond even —incomprehensible and indescribable. ([Location 6280](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6280)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - Both these attitudes are conducive to liberation: one is ‘I am the extremely subtle and transcendent self and the other is ‘I am all and everything’. There is another attitude with regard to the ‘I’, and that is ‘I am this body’: this attitude is the source of endless sorrow. ([Location 6363](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6363)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - He laughs at the activities of the worldly-minded persons. How can we compare such a person, and to what? How can anyone disturb his equanimity when he is totally free from thoughts like “I wish this had happened to me”? ([Location 6404](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6404)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The movement of is arrested at the moment when all hopes and desires come to an end in one’s heart through the earnest practice of the precepts of the scriptures and sages, and by the cultivation of dispassion in previous life-spans or through endeavouring to practise contemplation or meditation and reaching a stage of devotion to a single truth in a single-minded way. ([Location 6486](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6486)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The Lord endeavours to enlighten you continuously, for the wise should thus instruct the ignorant in a hundred ways. The light of the self alone exists as consciousness or intelligence; that itself has come to be known as the mind. If you realise this truth, you will instantly be dissolved. ([Location 6591](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6591)) - Tags: [[pink]] - O body, my friend, you have been my relation for a long time. I abandon you now. You yourself have brought on this separation by nobly leading me to the realisation of the self. How wonderful! In order to enable me to attain self-knowledge, you have destroyed yourself. ([Location 6704](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6704)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Even so, by the restraint of the movement of (life-force) the mind comes to a standstill, ([Location 6831](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6831)) - Tags: [[pink]] - It is not possible to ‘kill the mind’ without proper methods. Knowledge of the self, company of holy men, the abandonment of conditioning and the restraint of —these are the means to overcome the mind. ([Location 6899](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=6899)) - Tags: [[pink]] - He in whom all concepts and habitual tendencies have ceased has overcome all mental conditioning and bondage. He is like a lamp which is not fed with oil. ([Location 7058](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=7058)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Kaivalya or total freedom is the attainment of pure being after all mental conditioning is transcended consciously and after a thorough investigation. The wise ones say that one is established in pure being or Brahman only after one has investigated the nature of the truth as expounded in the scriptures, in the company and with the help of enlightened sages. ([Location 7260](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=7260)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - They call it yoga which is the method by which this cycle of birth and death ceases. It is the utter transcendence of the mind and it is of two types. Self-knowledge is one type; restraint of the life-force is another. However, yoga has come to mean only the latter. Yet, both the methods lead to the same result. ([Location 7409](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=7409)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - Either realise that ‘I am not and these experiences are not mine’ or know that ‘I am everything’: you will be free from the lure of world-appearance. Both these attitudes are good: adopt the one that suits you. You will be freed from attraction and aversion ([Location 7797](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=7797)) - Tags: [[pink]] - However, there is no use inviting it for the worship; no mantras are of any use in its worship for it is immediate (closest, one’s own self) and hence does not need to be invited. It is the omnipresent self of all. The realisation of this infinite consciousness (which is totally effortless) is alone the best form of worship. ([Location 8115](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8115)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - Worship the Lord of this body (the intelligence that pervades it) with all that is brought to you by time, circumstance and environment, and rest in supreme peace, devoid of desire. ([Location 8242](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8242)) - Tags: [[pink]] - All these together are known as the body, the subtle body which moves from one plane to another. ([Location 8290](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8290)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Thus were all these substances created; but nothing was created in fact. All these are but apparent modifications in the one infinite consciousness. ([Location 8295](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8295)) - Tags: [[pink]] - This world-illusion has arisen because of the movement of thought in the mind; when that ceases the illusion will cease, too, and the mind becomes no-mind. This can also be achieved by the restraint of . That is the supreme state. The bliss that is experienced in a state of no-mind, that bliss which is uncaused, is not found even in the highest heaven. In fact, that bliss is inexpressible and indescribable and should not even be called happiness! The mind of the knower of the truth is no-mind: it is pure satva. After living with such no-mind for some time, there arises the state known as (the state beyond the transcendental, or the state). ([Location 8368](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8368)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - They engage themselves in appropriate activity by a little movement of thought in consciousness (even as the Lord does). However, such movement of thought and the experiencing of the contact of the observer with the object also produce great joy in them. Their consciousness is absolutely pure, purified of all images (concepts and notions). ([Location 8441](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8441)) - Tags: [[pink]] - He who sees the self in all and all in the self and he who sees that the self is non-doer (being non-dual), he sees the truth. ([Location 8626](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8626)) - Tags: [[pink]] - , there are two types of muni (a sage who observes mouna or silence). One is the rigid ascetic and the other the liberated sage. The former forcibly restrains his senses and engages himself in dry (devoid of wisdom) (activities) with fanaticism. The liberated sage, on the other hand, knows what is what (the truth as truth and the unreal as unreal), he is endowed with self-knowledge and yet he behaves as any ordinary person here. ([Location 8946](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=8946)) - Tags: [[pink]] - By self-effort and by resolutely turning away from the pursuit of pleasure. And by the resolute breaking down of the prison-house of shame (false dignity), etc. If you abandon all this and remain firm, the egosense will vanish and you will realise that you are the supreme being! ([Location 9076](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9076)) - Tags: [[pink]] - rest in (liberation or enlightenment), without the least mental agitation, having realised that all that is (whether sentient or insentient) is pure consciousness. There is no ‘this’ nor ‘I’ nor ‘the other’; there is no being nor non-being. AH this is peace.” Having thus realised, rested in supreme peace. ([Location 9164](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9164)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - The instruction of a disciple by a preceptor is but a tradition: the cause of enlightenment is but the purity of the disciple’s consciousness. Not by hearing nor by righteous acts is self-knowledge attained. Only the self knows the self, ([Location 9375](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9375)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - “Which is superior, (action, the practice of a technique) or (self-knowledge)?” And, he said to me: “Indeed, is supreme for through one realises the one which alone is. On the other hand, has been described in colourful terms, as a pastime. If one does not have then one clings to : if one does not have good clothes to wear, he clings to the sack. ([Location 9511](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9511)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Why do you not enquire “Who am I?”, “How has this world arisen?” and “How does all this cease?”? Why do you not reach the state of the enlightened by enquiring into the nature of bondage and liberation? Why are you wasting your life in these futile austerities and other ? It is by resorting to the company of holy ones, by serving them and enquiring of them, that you will attain self-knowledge. ([Location 9525](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9525)) - Tags: [[pink]] - It is this mind alone which is referred to variously as buddhi, the cosmos, egosense, , etc. Hence, its abandonment alone is total renunciation. Once it is abandoned, the truth is experienced at once. All notions of unity and diversity come to an end; there is peace. ([Location 9673](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9673)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Similarly, even after the mind has been renounced, that infinite consciousness will exist. Even when all these have been burnt, you have not undergone any change; even when you have totally abandoned the mind, there will be no change. One who has totally renounced everything is not afflicted by fear of old age, death and such other events in life. That alone is supreme bliss. All else is terrible sorrow. OM! Thus assimilate this truth and do what you wish to do. ([Location 9678](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9678)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - Thus, you are the supreme primordial being. This body, this form, etc., have come into being on account of ignorance and misunderstanding. ([Location 9738](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9738)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - Lord, by the wise and well-reasoned words which you have uttered I have been fully awakened. I realise that, since there is no cause, Brahman is not the doer of anything nor the creator of anything. Hence, there is no mind nor an egosense. Such being the case, I am pure, I am awakened. I salute my self, there is naught which is the object of my consciousness. ([Location 9752](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9752)) - Tags: [[orange]] - When the egosense is non-existent, where is (the cycle of birth and death)? When thus does not exist, the supreme being alone remains. In it the universe exists as carvings in uncarved stone. He who thus sees the universe, without the intervention of the mind and therefore without the notion of a universe, he alone sees the truth. Such a vision is known as . ([Location 9853](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9853)) - Tags: [[pink]] - When thus the non-existence of the mind is realised, it is seen that the egosense, etc., do not exist. One alone exists—the infinite consciousness. All notions cease. The falsity which arose as the mind ceases when notions cease. I am not, nor is there another, nor do you nor do these exist; there is neither mind nor senses. One alone is—the pure consciousness. Nothing in the three worlds is ever born or dies. The infinite consciousness alone exists. There is neither unity nor diversity, neither confusion nor delusion. Nothing perishes and nothing flourishes. Everything (even the energy that manifests as desire and desirelessness) is your own self. ([Location 9879](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9879)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Truly, there is no mind in the liberated ones. What is the mind? The psychological conditioning or limitation which is dense and which leads to rebirth is known as mind: this is absent in the liberated sages. The liberated sages live with the help of the mind which is free from conditioning and which does not cause rebirth. It is not mind at all but pure light (satva). The liberated ones live and function here established in this satva, not in the mind. The ignorant and inert mind is mind; the enlightened mind is known as satva. The ignorant live in their mind, the enlightened ones live in satva. ([Location 9900](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9900)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Supreme and unending happiness is attained only through utter equanimity. ([Location 9909](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9909)) - Tags: [[pink]] - How shall I bring him back to body-consciousness? On the other hand, why should I do so? Let him reach the disembodied state and I shall also abandon this body now!” While she was getting ready to abandon her body, she again thought, “Before I abandon my body, let me see if there is the seed of mind () somewhere in his body. If there is, he can be awakened and then both of us can live as liberated beings. If there is not and if he has attained final liberation, I shall also abandon this body.” She examined his body and found that the seed of individuality was still present in him. ([Location 9934](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9934)) - Tags: [[pink]] - O , whatever you do, know that it is nothing but pure consciousness. Brahman alone is manifest here as all this, for naught else exists. There is no scope for ‘this’ and the ‘other’. Therefore, abandon even the concepts of liberation and bondage. Remain in the pure, egoless state engaging yourself in natural activity. ([Location 10223](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=10223)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[orange]] - One’s limited understanding and one’s own notions are the cause of bondage, and liberation is their absence. Hence abandon all notions (). If you are attracted by anything here, you are bound; if you are not attracted at all you are free. Whatever you do and whatever you enjoy, you do not really do, nor do you enjoy. Know this and be free. ([Location 10331](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=10331)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - “I am not the doer but god alone is the doer; not even in the past did I do anything.” ([Location 10386](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=10386)) - Tags: [[orange]] - You have proved that you are the guru by this (direct transmission of spiritual energy). He is a guru who is able to give rise to god-consciousness in the disciple by a look, by a touch, by verbal communication or by grace. ([Location 10525](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=10525)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - one should abandon that wrong notion of ‘I do’ ([Location 10588](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=10588)) - Tags: [[pink]] - As and when the perception of an object arises within you, meet it with the understanding ‘I am not this’. ([Location 10628](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=10628)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Whether you know something or do not, remain free from doubt. When you realise that you are the unborn, infinite consciousness, then all ignorance and foolishness cease and this world-appearance ceases. ([Location 10715](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=10715)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - Though the objects (like wood and wax) may appear to be different, they are non-different from the observer’s viewpoint since it is the same observer that observes both of them, and the observer is consciousness. ([Location 11033](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11033)) - Tags: [[orange]] - To one such as you, one should transmit the purest truth; and the purest truth is expressed only by complete silence. That silence which is free from rational enquiry and mental activity is the supreme state; hence, that alone was the appropriate answer to a question by a wise one like you. ([Location 11113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11113)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[orange]] - The self alone is real, devoid of the concepts of time, space and such other notions; the self is not a void. This truth is realised only by those who are established in the supreme state, not by those who rest in the egosense. ([Location 11686](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11686)) - In my vision, it is pure and supreme peace. In this there are infinite potentialities like figures in an uncut marble. Thus the supreme self is at the same time diverse and non-diverse. It is when you do not have direct self-knowledge that there arises in you doubt concerning this. The perception of diversity is due to the division that arises in the self. ([Location 11709](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11709)) - It is not right to consider that ‘death’ is a state of bliss on account of the total destruction of the self. It is a state of void (like space). This vision of will arise again. If there is fear on account of evil actions, the consequences are the same here or ‘there’. Hence, there is no vital distinction between life and death. Knowing this one attains peace of mind. When thus perception of division ceases, the vision of oneness arises. This is known as liberation. ([Location 11749](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11749)) - Whether one is a knower of the truth or ignorant of it, without the egosense the body cannot exist. ([Location 11781](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11781)) - Behold the entire universe composed of you, I, mountains, gods and demons, etc., as you would behold the creations and the happenings of a dream. ([Location 11808](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11808)) - Tags: [[pink]] - “O sage, you have truly conquered the evils like lust, anger and greed. Your mind is totally free and unattached. Hence I salute you from all sides.” Now ([Location 11825](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11825)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Till today we have not been able to attain liberation on account of our intense desire () and on account of our intense attachment for each other. ([Location 11913](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11913)) - The subtle cosmic body () is not material. It is on account of non-understanding that the falls under the sway of this illusion: what foolishness! ([Location 11990](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=11990)) - Tags: [[pink]] - All these are but appearances in the space or plane of infinite consciousness (cidambaram). ([Location 12056](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=12056)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Others (yogis) who were able to make their life-force depart through the crown of their head, attained immortality. ([Location 12200](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=12200)) - Tags: [[orange]] - Why not understand this truth right in the beginning? Neither the gross elements nor the forms exist in truth: they arise as they arise in a dream. As forms arise in dreams, so do they arise in the waking state, too. If this is realised, there is liberation. Whether the body continues to exist or ceases to exist, there is no sorrow. ([Location 13020](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=13020)) - Tags: [[orange]] - The Creator and all things are but pure consciousness. When this is realised, it is known as Brahman; when it is not realised, it is known as illusion, , ignorance and the world. ([Location 13057](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=13057)) - Tags: [[pink]] - While discharging his worldly duties, the enlightened person behaves in the same way as the ignorant person. The distinction between bondage and liberation lies in the state of one’s consciousness, which is conditioned in bondage and unconditioned in liberation. ([Location 13282](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=13282)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The (one who has self-knowledge) is like the sun which makes the lotus of all dharma, karma and knowledge blossom. Compared to the wisdom of the sage of self-knowledge, even the status of the king of the gods is like a worthless straw. When self-knowledge arises, the illusory notion of a world-existence vanishes and the realisation of Brahman as the only truth arises; just as when light dispels darkness, the garland which had been mistaken for a snake shines as a garland. ([Location 13769](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=13769)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Attaining a subtle body through the performance of austerities, ([Location 14098](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=14098)) - Tags: [[pink]] - You have had many births and so have I. I know them, you do not. Wandering in all these you have wasted a lot of time. Because you were so conditioned you found it difficult to free yourself. YOU will say: How can I overcome the effect of such past life? The MINISTER will say: There is nothing that one who strives without agitation cannot achieve. ([Location 14182](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=14182)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The ignorant perceive the world as having a beginning and an end. The enlightened do not see it at all for it has not been created at all and hence does not exist. said: But how is it that we experience its existence? replied: It is experienced as an object is experienced in a dream when it does not exist in truth. asked: But, then, it is because of the previous experience in the waking state that the dream-object is experienced. ([Location 15231](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=15231)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The perfect cessation of craving born of the perfect enlightenment, itself is known as liberation. When this is attained, one does not grieve even though continuing to live. For one who rests in his own self and rejoices in the self, in whom cravings have ceased and egosense is absent, life becomes non-volitional and there is perfect purity. One in millions, however, is able to reach this unconditioned state of pure being. ([Location 15332](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=15332)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - In your discourse, O Lord, there was not a single inappropriate note. It was characterised uniformly by the highest truth. You have instantly dispelled the veil of sin that had covered our minds and hearts. Our heart-lotus has fully unfolded. We salute you; you are our guru. ([Location 15479](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=15479)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - When the truth concerning this tree of samsara is clearly perceived, the realisation arises that ‘I am the three worlds’ and there is liberation. The visible universe remains as it is, but ceases to be an object of consciousness; it merges in the infinite consciousness. ([Location 15648](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=15648)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Consciousness alone is both the doer and the experiencer of everything in everything. Hence, none here is the doer and the experiencer of anything, or the Lord is the doer and the experiencer of everything. Thus it is possible for everything (injunctions and prohibitions) to exist in the Lord and not to exist so in truth. All this is as all this is experienced by each one. ([Location 15726](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=15726)) - Tags: [[pink]] - My delusion is gone. I shall now live a life of spontaneous non-volitional activity. ([Location 15769](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=15769)) - Tags: [[pink]] ## New highlights added April 2, 2023 at 7:19 PM - Lord, by the wise and well-reasoned words which you have uttered I have been fully awakened. I realise that, since there is no cause, Brahman is not the doer of anything nor the creator of anything. Hence, there is no mind nor an egosense. ([Location 9752](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003DM3QSU&location=9752)) - Tags: [[orange]]