Punya and Pavana - Be Still

Sage Vasishtha

PUNYA said:

All along this path of life relatives are strewn like dry leaves on a forest path. What can be proper cause for grief or joy in this world, brother? Let us, therefore, abandon all these ignorant notions and remain at peace. Abandon the notion of the world which arises in your mind as the 'I'. And, be still, neither going up nor falling down! You have no unhappiness, no birth, no father, no mother: you are the Self and naught else. The sages perceive the middle path, they see what is at the moment, they are at peace, they are established in witness consciousness: they shine like a lamp in darkness, in whose light events happen (without the lamp being involved).

VASISHTHA continued:

Thus instructed by his brother, Pavana was awakened. Both of them remained as enlightened beings, endowed with wisdom and direct realization. They roamed the forest doing what they pleased but without blemish. In course of time they abandoned their embodiment and attained final liberation, as a lamp without fuel. Craving is the root of all sorrow,  O Rama: and the only intelligent way is to renounce all cravings completely and no to indulge them. Even as fire burns all the more fiercely when fed with fuel, thoughts multiply by thinking: thoughts cease only by the extinction of thinking. Hence, ascend the chariot of non-thinking and with a compassionate and limitless vision behold the worlds sunk in sorrow. Arise, O Rama.

This indeed is the brahmic state - pure, free from craving and from illness. Attaining this even one who has been a fool is freed from delusion. He who roams the earth with wisdom as his friend and awareness as the female companion, does not become deluded.