Sage Vasishtha
BALI said:
It was indeed a wondrous state in which I remained for a brief moment. I shall continue to remain in that state: what have I to do with the affairs of the external world? Supreme peace and bliss reign in my own heart now. I am consciousness and in me there does not exist any perversion. What is there for me to acquire or to abandon? What fun: I long for liberation, but who has bound me, when and how! Why do I long for liberation then? There is no bondage and no liberation: what shall I gain by meditation or by not meditating? Freed from delusion of meditation and non-meditation, let be what has to be: there is neither gain nor loss to me. I do not desire either meditation or non-meditation, neither joy nor non-joy, I do not desire the supreme being or the world. I am neither alive nor dead; I am neither real nor unreal. Salutations to myself, the infinite being! Let this world be my kingdom, I shall be what I am: let this world be not my kingdom, I shall be what I am. What have I to do with meditation and what have I to do with the kingdom? Let be what has to be. I belong to none and none belongs to me. There is absolutely nothing that has to be done by what is known as me; then why should I not do that action which is natural?
Thus having reflected, the king Bali turned his radiant gaze towards the assembled demons, even as the sun gazes upon a lotus.
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