Sri Vasista
O Rama, With such thinking and inquiry, discarding duality, people naturally attain liberation, like gods obtaining 'Chintamani' (the wish - fulfilling diamond of the gods)
O Rama, listen. I shall now elaborate upon that kind of perception of phenomena, with which you will possess divine sight
-5 (Meditate. Think like this) ' I am sky. I am sun. I am the quarters. I am up. I am down. I am 'daitya'. I am god. I am the world. I am day. I am darkness. I am clouds. I am the oceans. I am Agni. I am vayu (wind). I am all this world. I am the three worlds. I am everywhere. I abide as Self. How can there be bodies other than me? When I am only one how can there be duality of any kind?'
Thus determined, with the world seen abiding inside Self, sorrows and joys will never go out of control. They will not arise again.
O lotus eyed Rama, When all this world is pervaded with Self in such a way, tell me what is yours and what is others?
If something appears on the scene that is against truth, a 'Jnani' need not feel either sorry or happy. It is sorrowful only to an ignorant person who is full of this world.
There are two perceptions which look like egoistic perceptions. They are pure and sattwic (Harmonising). They are driven by a knowledge of Truth. They yield liberation and are highly spiritual.
O best of Raghus, the first one is. 'I am that indivisible ultimate, infinitesunal particle. I am the that form of consciousness which is beyond all forms.' The second one is : ' I am every thing.'
O sinless one; there is a third one which yields only grief and never peace. That is 'I am this body'.
Now giving up all these three egoistic perceptions, adopt whatever accomplishing perceptions remain, (ie) nonegoistic perception and abide in the Supreme.
This world, which is full of nonbeing and non existence, is illumined by the Self which is beyond all forms and all existences.
O best of knowers of cosmic nature, realize this through your own self- experience and leave the heart node (which is the seat of all vasanas).
Self is gained neither by credible and authourtative words nor by logical inferences. It should be directly experienced always and ever.
What can be touched and heard in this phenomenal world is due to a little of that knowledge (of truth). However what is devoid of the triune of observation, observer and observed only is that supreme Self.
That Lord Self is neither existent nor nonexistent. It is neither an atom nor the biggest (thing), nor is it anything in between the two. It is all and everything.
O my dear Rama, people say 'That is self'. But it is not amenable to any such verbal description. Since there is nothing else other than that in this world, see that infallible Self only everywhere.
'This is Self, this is not Self' - such kinds of symbols and denominations are self-created by Self only with its power of being immanent in all.
Self abides everywhere radiantly in all the three times. It does not shine because of smallness or largeness
Self resides in all matter and objects, By its very nature it reflects as life in the mirror of 'puryashtaka' (the subtle body)
Even though Self is immanent in all, it is experienced only when it is reflected in 'puryastaka' the subtle body. It is like wind being experienced in the sky when the clouds move.
Consciousness - Self is all pervading. However it is not known by any particular name. Only when it abides in all matter, it is known as the supreme Lord.
Dust exists when wind blows. Light ocurs when a lamp 'is'. Similarly when there is a subtle body, then there exists a Jiva. Life or Jiva can not sparkle in a stone.
When the sun appears, desire to perform works arises in people. Simlarly when the Self descends into the subtle body (the puryastaka), the desires that exist in it become active.
-27 . If the works/ activities indulged in by people while sun is up, are damaged or hurt, no harm comes to sun. Similarly when the Lord Self abides in the body, all that is gained by the body due to such abiding is lost. What is the loss for Self?
This Self is never born. It never dies. It never gives nor takes. It is neither bound nor free.
If what is not Self acquires the status of Self due to lack of enlightenment, it is same as the illusion of a rope being taken for a serpent. Such illusion is clearly grief-causing.
Soul/self has no beginning and so it is never born. Since it is not born, it cannot be destroyed. It never desires anything that is contrary to it since there is nothing other than Self.
Self is never bound since it is never differentiated into time and space. When bondage is not, where is the question of liberation? And so it abides as it is, as unliberated.
O Rama, such is the Self in all with such attributes. People cry foolishly without understanding this.
O man of good mind, think integrally, all the pros and cons of this movement of the world. Do not then grieve like the foolish people of this world.
A wise man should abandon the thoughts about both bondage and liberation and abide in his Self. He should act in silene like a robot.
Liberation is neither in sky, nor in the neither world, nor on earth. A pure mind enlightened by knowledge of Truth is liberation.
Wise people say that liberation is the Self-destruction of mind which occurs when mind loses all interest in and attachment to things desired.
O Rama, one attempts for liberation through devotion and such so long as he does not gain Knowledge of Self.
When he gains perfect knowledge and mind acquiners the consciousness state, he will not desire even ten liberations: what to talk of liberation once!
O Rama, abandon the feelings 'this is liberation, this is bondage.' These are usless apprehensions. Become a 'maha tyagi', great sacrificer and become liberation itself, the very form of Existence.
O Rama, with all the deformations disolved, without any attachments, rule over this entire earth which is encircled by the seas that have been dug by the sons of king Sagara
