Sage Vasishtha
VALMIKI continued..
Very soon the darkness of the night recede even as mental conditioning recedes with the approach of the awakening of the inner intelligence. Shafts of light from the eastern horizon illumined the eastern and the western peaks.
Rama, Lakshmana and all the others awoke at that auspicious hour and performed their morning religious duties. Then they proceeded swiftly to the hermitage of the Sage Vasishtha. They offered him appropriate worship, prostrated at his feet and followed him to the royal court. The audience packed the court; but there was pin drop silence. The space in the court was again filled with celestial beings and sages who had attained perfection. All of them took their allotted seats as on the previous days. Rama devoutly gazed at the face of the sage Vasishtha.
VASISHTHA said:
Rama, do you remember what I have so far said to you, the words which are capable of awakening a knowledge of truth or self-knowledge? I shall once again declare to you how perfection can be permanently established.
By resorting to dispassion (the unconditioned mind) and a clear understanding of the truth, this ocean of samsara can be crossed: hence engage yourself in such endeavor. When the truth is clearly perceived and when its misunderstanding has been completely abandoned, upon the dissolution of all the latent tendencies or mental conditioning, the sorrow-less state is reached.
The one infinite absolute existence or cosmic consciousness alone is and it is not affected by the concepts of time and space, nor is it subject to polarity or division. The infinite alone exists and has somehow assumed duality. However, when in fact the infinite cannot thus be divided, how can such duality come into being? Knowing this, be free of the ego-sense and rejoice in the self.
There is no mind, no ignorance, no individual soul: these are all concepts that arose in the creator Brahma. Whatever objects there may be, whatever may be the mind and its desires - all that is indeed the one cosmic consciousness. That one alone shines in the netherworld, on earth and in heaven as consciousness.
As long as the concepts born of ignorance persist, as long as there is perception of that which is not the infinite and as long as there is hope in the trap known as the world, so long one entertains notions of mind etc. As long as one considers the body as the "I" and as long as the self is related to what is seen, as long as there is hope in objects with the feeling 'this is mine', so long will there be delusion concerning mind etc.
Rama, do you remember what I have so far said to you, the words which are capable of awakening a knowledge of truth or self-knowledge? I shall once again declare to you how perfection can be permanently established.
By resorting to dispassion (the unconditioned mind) and a clear understanding of the truth, this ocean of samsara can be crossed: hence engage yourself in such endeavor. When the truth is clearly perceived and when its misunderstanding has been completely abandoned, upon the dissolution of all the latent tendencies or mental conditioning, the sorrow-less state is reached.
The one infinite absolute existence or cosmic consciousness alone is and it is not affected by the concepts of time and space, nor is it subject to polarity or division. The infinite alone exists and has somehow assumed duality. However, when in fact the infinite cannot thus be divided, how can such duality come into being? Knowing this, be free of the ego-sense and rejoice in the self.
There is no mind, no ignorance, no individual soul: these are all concepts that arose in the creator Brahma. Whatever objects there may be, whatever may be the mind and its desires - all that is indeed the one cosmic consciousness. That one alone shines in the netherworld, on earth and in heaven as consciousness.
As long as the concepts born of ignorance persist, as long as there is perception of that which is not the infinite and as long as there is hope in the trap known as the world, so long one entertains notions of mind etc. As long as one considers the body as the "I" and as long as the self is related to what is seen, as long as there is hope in objects with the feeling 'this is mine', so long will there be delusion concerning mind etc.
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