Sage Vasishtha
Thus have I told you the story of king Bali, O RAma. Gain such a vision as he had and enjoy supreme felicity. Abandon the desire for the essenceless and useless sense-pleasure in this world. The attractive objects that tempt you here do not deserve your admiration any more than rock-figures seen at a distance. Establish your mind, which flits from one thing to another, firmly in your heart.
You are the light of consciousness, O Rama; in you are the worlds rooted. who is your friend and who is other? You are the Infinite. In you are all the worlds strung like beads of a rosary. That being which thou art is neither born nor does he die. The Self is real; birth and death are imaginary. Enquire into the nature of all the illnesses that beset life, and live without craving. You are the light and the Lord, O Rama: and this world appears to be in that light. It has no real and independent existence.
Formerly, you had repeatedly entertained the wrong notions of the desirable and the undesirable: give up these too. Then you will enjoy equanimity: and the wheel of birth will come to a halt. In whatever the mind tends to sink, retrieve it from it and direct it towards the truth. Thus will the wild elephant of the mind be tamed. Do not be led astray by the long-winded empty statements of the wicked self-appointed teachers who have no direct experience: you will surely attain enlightenment listening to my discourse.
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