Sri Vasista

1. Rāma, the battle over senses should be won to cross the ocean of the world (of becomings).  This cannot be achieved by any other means.

2. The total non existence of the phenomenal world can be known only by those who mastered their senses through constant study of scriptures and engagement with wise and noble company

3. O Rāma, the most beautiful one, I have told you all about the way the host of the mutable worlds come and go (arise and decline).

4. Why say many things!  Mind is at the root of the tree of works.  If that is cut, the world branches are cut and works decline.

5. Mind is everything in this world O Rāma.  If that is healed, all diseases of this world web will be cured.

6. World is born out of the confused and bewildered thinking of the mind.  Without mind how can body visualise anything?

7. This ghoul of mind will not get pacified even in aeons except by the total absence of phenomenal world.

8. Curing of the mental disease is the only for the above purpose.

9. Mind dies and come to life again by its own confusion, delusion and bewilderment.  It gets liberated by thinking (inquiring) about its ownself (its own nature)

10. This world sparkles out of a mind which has fainted under its own thinking and thoughts.  It is like the vision of a celestial town in an empty sky.

11. This world, wide and whole, sparkles out of the mind and exists separate like fragrance of a bunch of flowers.

12. This world is in the mind-stuff like quality in one who has qualities, as oil in a til seed and dharma in a person of dharmic nature.

13. This world is in mind like rays in a sun, like effulgence in light and like heat in fire.

14. This world is in mind like cold in snow, like emptiness in sky, like movement in air.

15. Mind is world and world is mind.  They pine for each other always.  Among the two if mind declines, world dies.  But when world dies, mind does not die.