Sri Vasista

O Rāma, I have already elaborated earlier on this. You are still not appreciating and comprehending the teaching. What happened to your intelligence which is capable of logical understanding?
This world of movables and immovables is a mere reflection (of the Absolute). It is like a dream, non-existent.
O Rāma, this world is like a long dream. It is false and unreal. It is like two moons, a mere delusion.
One in whom the sleep of ignorance has slipped out and in whom the musings about the mutable world have subsided, he is an awakened mind. Even though he sees the world, it is as if he has not seen it. (he is not aware of it).
O Rāma, this world is a creation of the nature of a Siva. Till he is liberated, this falsehood of a world will remain in his heart.
The unstable body of Siva is like a vortex in water. It is like a sprout in seed and the tender leaves in a sprout.
It is like a flower in tender leaves and a fruit in a flower. In the same way there is a conceived from of body is the mind.
Many distinct forms of exist in the mind. Whatever is a proper reflection of the mind (which is infested with vāsanas) will be born of it.
In the first creation the best of reflections will be born as a body. This is of good characteristics like a pot made out (well prepared) mud.
All this is manifested in sequence as per the mental resolution and conception of Brahma, the lotus-born Thus the entire creation is a majestic concretisation of that deception, the ‘māya’.

Sri Rāma

O Mahatma, a jiva attains the Brahmahood having attained a high state of mental consciousness. How does this happen? Please let me know in detail.

O mighty Rāma, hear about the way Brahma takes his body.
You shall know the sustenance of the world by this (knowledge). By its own force self nature is undifferentiated as time and space.
When this self assumes time and space-bound body as a sport, the cycle of being and becoming starts, driven by a trance-like involvement of vāsanas.
Mind acquires an unstable condition of oscillating between seizing apprehension and non-apprehension. Mind conceives of time with its force and prowess.
Thinking of pure void of sky, the seed of sound in its essence is laid. When this gets concrete and solid, vibration process starts within the space.
When mind thinks of vibrating air, the seed of touch principle is laid. On account of this, mentally visible air waves arise in space.
With the mutual impacting of sound and touch forms, fire is generated. When it gets dense and solid, it (the fire) brightly shines.
With the pure light, the sense of sight increases. When these qualities get embedded in mind, the subtle elements/energies of aesthetics and taste arise.
From these the principle of fluid state gets generated. The sense of smell is conceived by mind and the smell element emerges.
-23. Thus the five subtle energies and elements are generated. When this subtlety is cast away a spark like flaming body is seen in the sky. This is endowed with the sense of ego (as its identity) and contains the seed of ‘buddhi’ (discriminating intelligence).

This (body) is called ‘puryastakam’. This is like a bee in the lotus of heart (of Siva). In this the mind nourishes feverish quiverings.
These feverish vibrations get dense when ripe. It is like a ripe bilwa fruit. Then like molten gold this dense thing shines as subtle and gross bodies.
By its own self nature, that golden effulgence limits itself in a body. Again it makes that dwelling full of light.
-29. This mind spreads its ideations and fancies far and wide across space. At the top is head and at the bottom are feet. On the sides are hands. In the middle is the stomach. Mind manifests limbs according to its desires and wills. Thus a body is made (and thus shine Brahma). The sage of mind acquires a body engrossed inits own tendencies and deep memories (vāsanas).

Thus mind leads into a body which is a personification of its own nature. In time it gets a clear identity and becomes a pure body (Brahma).
It is prosperously endowed with intelligence, discrimination, strength, zeal and energy and gnosis. It then is He the great Bhagawan Brahma, the grand father, the ancient one, of all the worlds.
He shines like molten gold, the one born of the great ether. He abides in that Supreme ether with his perfect form.
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He creates in himself delusion as a sport or dalliance of the mind. He creates the infinite sky and space, infinite oceans of water. He creates at some time the great fire of deluge, which flames bright. He creates forests, earth and many such worlds. He wears many forms and rules over these worlds in a spirit of sport.

Descending into ignorance, he loses the memory of divine happiness. Emerging out of the sleep in the womb (of consciousness), he sees his own body of light.
-44. This body is nourished by the vital airs and breathing. It is made of the material elements. It is full of hairs and has thirty two teeth. It has two calves and pelvic and hip bones. It has five parts and nine openings, skin, twenty fingers and twenty nails. It has two shoulders, two breasts, two eyes. It is a nest for the bird called ‘sense mind’. It is harbouring a serpent called cupid. It houses a ghoul called desire. It is a cave for a lion called ‘Siva’. It shines like a lotus called mind. Brahma perceives this beautiful body of his and starts thinking about : ‘what shall I create in this infinite blue space? Immediately, he could become aware of the three times: past, present and future.

He then saw the innumerable creations that have gone-by. He then recollected all the traditions, rules and dharmas in those creations.
Brahma then structured the vedas like spring which designs beautiful flowers. He then created a variety of beings for his own sportive delight.
He then designed laws and behavioral structures and rules for realizing the purposes and desires (of those beings).
-49. O Rāma, he wrote a variety of scriptures. All this exuberance of beauty of this creation is because of the mind that attained the Brahma state, O Rāma, only a mind that has taken the form of Brahma has designed all this creation.