Sage Vasishtha
O Rama, live in this world with unlimited vision, having firmly rejected all limitation. Inwardly be free from all desires and hopes; but outwardly do what has to be done. Examine everything and seek only that which is not limited or finite: and, live in this world constantly contemplating the infinite. Without entertaining any hope in your heart, yet living as if you are full of hopes, live in this world with your heart calm and cool, behaving outwardly like everyone else. Inwardly give up all notions of 'I am the doer', yet engage yourself in all activities outwardly. Thus live in this world, O Rama, completely free from the least trace of the ego-sense. There is no bondage and therefore there is no liberation, in truth. This world-appearance is essentially unreal and is of the nature of a juggler's trick. The omnipresent, infinite self can never be bound; so how is it to be liberated? All this confusion arises on account of the ignorance of the truth: when the truth is known this confusion vanishes, like the imaginary snake in the rope.
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