Sri Vasista

1. O Rāma, all these universes, which are essentially Brahman , established in firm shapes they emerge again and again.

2. By nature all in the world are caused by some mutuality condition.  In the same way they get annihilated due to some mutuality condition.

3. What is unreal appears as real consciousness.  It is like waters in a deep valley which appear calm even though they are oscillating.

4. Like rivers in summer, sky has no form.  In the same way the essential consciousness is formless.  However from the perception of creation it has form.

5. Due to arrogant conceit, one’s own self appears to be separate.  In the same way due to mental distortion consciousness-element appears as non-existent.

6. O Rāma, this world is neither existent nor non-existent.  It is neither redundant nor super abundant.  It is (in consciousness) the way bracelet is in gold.

7. O Rāghava, that is the Supreme Brahman by which you are able to smell, touch, feel, hear and taste.  It is all pervading.

8. That all pervading Self is beyond oneness and duality.  It is pure.  There is no fabrication, fancy or conjecture in it.  There is never ever anything else in it.

9. O Rāma, musings, non-musings, good and bad are mere imaginations and fancies.  These non-self creations arise in the Self only.

10. If there is anything other than Self, then a desire for it can arise.  When there is no such separate existence other than that of Self, what will the Self desire?  What will it think of?  What will it run after?

11. And so nothing like likable or not likable.  Self is not touched by such likings.  Since actor, action and instrument of action are united as one, Self is without any doership.  Since there is neither support nor any thing supported, Self has nowhere to bide.

12. O Rāma, since there is nothing else to know, you stay settled in that Brahman state.  Having been liberated from all divisions and differentiation act in the world without any fever.

13. O Rāghava, what have you gained by working in this world.  In any other way (or with any other perception)?  And so become pure and settled by acting with a sense of non-doership and remain unperturbed and calm like an ocean without any passing breeze.

14. By running far with speed and effort to achieve something in this world is useless effort.  It will never be fulfilled.  Do not chase these material things, you are not the (visible) you.  You are that Supreme Consciousness Self.