This is based on the Nirvaana Prakarana of Yogavaasishtha Ramayana.
Sage Vasishtha now explains the unsubstantial nature of the whole objective display. Objectivity is a huge cosmic wheel in constant revolution, giving rise to many cycles. It is impelled by Consciousness. Apart from Consciousness itself, it has no validity or ground. Hence to attribute suddenness, recentness, age-oldness or lastingness to this Cosmic Wheel, will be wrong, inappropriate. The supreme sovereign potential of Consciousness alone brings about this astounding display.
Experience is ceaseless. It is so, for everyone. Ever since the birth of the body, one's experience remains continuous. Knowledge is but another name for experience. It is thus ever present. Experience of thoughts, thinking and thinker, each seemingly resulting from the other, is like a small space leading to a bigger space; the bigger resting in yet another, still bigger. But can there verily be such a sequence? Or, is it all just one space and that alone? When you understand the concept of space properly, ideas like its small measure enclosed in a bigger one, become utterly wrong.
Such deliberations are meant to help the understanding. This kind of introspection becomes necessary, until at last everything clearly strikes as one full homogeneity, admitting nothing else.
Space can be considered as closest to Brahman, in one sense. Just as space rests on its own vastness, so too Brahman rests on its own immensity and infinitude. Truth has no support but truthfulness alone. When the mind feels full, where does it rest, except upon itself? This is the experiential description of the whole Subjectude.
See how Vasishthadeva relates this exposition and realization to the functional and interactional life. Be spatial within you, but be active in the sensory plane with all orderliness and concern. The swinging emotions of delight and depression, love and hate, should subside. Look at them as you will at wood, stone or clay. The sight of an `enemy' should not disturb, irritate or anger the mind. The Knower should be like a painted replica of himself in front of scores of enemies slaughtered by him. In other words, his inner sublimity should be such as would be when all of them have become extinct. This is what makes one immersed in and crowned by his inner spiritual splendour
Sage Vasishtha now explains the unsubstantial nature of the whole objective display. Objectivity is a huge cosmic wheel in constant revolution, giving rise to many cycles. It is impelled by Consciousness. Apart from Consciousness itself, it has no validity or ground. Hence to attribute suddenness, recentness, age-oldness or lastingness to this Cosmic Wheel, will be wrong, inappropriate. The supreme sovereign potential of Consciousness alone brings about this astounding display.
Experience is ceaseless. It is so, for everyone. Ever since the birth of the body, one's experience remains continuous. Knowledge is but another name for experience. It is thus ever present. Experience of thoughts, thinking and thinker, each seemingly resulting from the other, is like a small space leading to a bigger space; the bigger resting in yet another, still bigger. But can there verily be such a sequence? Or, is it all just one space and that alone? When you understand the concept of space properly, ideas like its small measure enclosed in a bigger one, become utterly wrong.
Such deliberations are meant to help the understanding. This kind of introspection becomes necessary, until at last everything clearly strikes as one full homogeneity, admitting nothing else.
Space can be considered as closest to Brahman, in one sense. Just as space rests on its own vastness, so too Brahman rests on its own immensity and infinitude. Truth has no support but truthfulness alone. When the mind feels full, where does it rest, except upon itself? This is the experiential description of the whole Subjectude.
See how Vasishthadeva relates this exposition and realization to the functional and interactional life. Be spatial within you, but be active in the sensory plane with all orderliness and concern. The swinging emotions of delight and depression, love and hate, should subside. Look at them as you will at wood, stone or clay. The sight of an `enemy' should not disturb, irritate or anger the mind. The Knower should be like a painted replica of himself in front of scores of enemies slaughtered by him. In other words, his inner sublimity should be such as would be when all of them have become extinct. This is what makes one immersed in and crowned by his inner spiritual splendour
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