Sri Vasista
-6 O Rama, thus Vitahavya reached the end of the world region and crossed the ocean of sorrow. All thinking has totally subsided. He merged into consciousness like a drop of water in sea. Then his body withered like lotus in water. Then the bird of life left the nest of his body. All the five elemnts in his body merged in their respective universal pools. His skeleton lay on the ground. His consciousness entered the universal consciousness. All the seven dhatus, like blood etc, merged in the universal dhatus. Thus each one entered their universal pools.
-12 O Rama, I have now narrated all about Vitahavya's repose (in Brahman). Now you should muse about it. With proper inquiry, perceive the cosmic and furadamental nature of Self and ascend to that essence. Whatever I have told you, telling you and will tell you is what I have seen and experienced. I am a 'Chiranjeevi' (an inmortal) and knower of all the three times. You also adopt the same perception and acquire knowledge. Only from knowledge can one attain liberation. With knowledge you will be delivered of grief and all ignorance will subside. Only through knowledge can the perfect state be attained.
-16 . With knowledge alone Vitahavya razed to the ground the mountain of mind. All desires have been made powerless. He could conceive all this world in his heart and experienced it as simple phenomenon. Vitahavya is mind alone. The 'I ness' of mind is senses. Mind is world as whole. What else and who else is all this? Vitahavya achieved the Absolute with all the blemishes like attachment cast away, all the impurities washed off, abandoning gross and subtle bodies, and delivered of all grief.
