Sage Vasishtha
Let you mind not entertain a feeling of 'mine-ness' in any of the objects of the senses: whether you are active or inactive, you will not be sunk in the mire of ignorance. When your heart does not taste sense-pleasure as sweet and desirable, then you have known all that there is to be known, and you are saved from this cycle of birth and death. He who is not attracted by the pleasures of either this world or of heaven (whether or not there is body-consciousness in him) is liberated, even if he does not specifically desire or strive for such liberation.
O Rama, in this ocean of ignorant mental conditioning, he who has found the raft of self-knowledge is saved from drowning; he who has not found that raft is surely drowned. Therefore, O Rama, examine the nature of the self with an intelligence as sharp as the razor's edge; and then rest established in self-knowledge.
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