Sage Vasishtha
Thus, all this world appearance with all the mobile and immobile beings in it is naught whatsoever. Nothing has really become physical or material. If conceptualization, which gives rise to notions of being and non-being, is eliminated then it is realized that all these jivas (the individual souls), etc., are empty expressions. All the relationships that arise in one's heart on account of ignorance are seen to be non-existent. Even when the rope is mistaken for a snake, no one can be bitten by the snake!
It is absence of self-knowledge that is known as ignorance or delusion. When the self is known one reaches the shores of limitless intelligence. When consciousness objectifies itself and regards itself as its own object of observation, there is avidya or ignorance. When this subject-object notion is transcended, all the veils that envelop the reality are removed. The individual is nothing more than the personalized mind. Individuality ceases when that mind ceases; it remains as long as the notion of a personality remains. So long as there is a pot there is also a notion of a space enclosed within or confined to that pot; when it is broken, the infinite space alone is, even where the pot-space was imagined before.
RAMA asked:
Lord, please tell me how this cosmic intelligence becomes things like insentient rocks.
VASISHTHA replied:
In these substance like rocks, consciousness remains immobile having abandoned the thinking faculty but not having been able to reach the state of no-mind. It is like the state of deep sleep, far away from the state of liberation.
It is absence of self-knowledge that is known as ignorance or delusion. When the self is known one reaches the shores of limitless intelligence. When consciousness objectifies itself and regards itself as its own object of observation, there is avidya or ignorance. When this subject-object notion is transcended, all the veils that envelop the reality are removed. The individual is nothing more than the personalized mind. Individuality ceases when that mind ceases; it remains as long as the notion of a personality remains. So long as there is a pot there is also a notion of a space enclosed within or confined to that pot; when it is broken, the infinite space alone is, even where the pot-space was imagined before.
RAMA asked:
Lord, please tell me how this cosmic intelligence becomes things like insentient rocks.
VASISHTHA replied:
In these substance like rocks, consciousness remains immobile having abandoned the thinking faculty but not having been able to reach the state of no-mind. It is like the state of deep sleep, far away from the state of liberation.
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