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Nondual Highlights Issue #2052 Sunday, February 6, 2005 Editor: Mark
- Editor's note: Gloria is taking a day off. The following quotes
are all from Vasishtha's Yoga... (one of my favorite books.)
It
is . . . childish and ignorant (to) talk of duality and
non-duality; the enlightened ones laugh at all this. However,
without such a discussion based on duality and non-duality it is
not possible to clean one's consciousness of ignorance. It is
only in that spirit that I have dealt with all this, dear friend.
- Vasistha
The mind abandons everything when the vision of the supreme is
gained. Hence, one should resolutely renounce everything till the
supreme vision is gained. Not till one renounces everything is
self-knowledge gained: when all points of view are abandoned,
what remains is the self. Page 282
It is the cessation of the awareness of action and of experience,
the giving up of conditioning and thus the attainment of peace
and the state of equilibrium that is known by the expression
‘abandonment of action’. Page 489
The infinite consciousness which alone appears as all this is
undying, unchanging and eternal. The unmoving consciousness
remains, appearing to be whatever notion arises in it here and
there. What is truth and what is false? So let one experience
bodies, actions, sorrow or pleasure as and when they arise -- or
let them all go. There is no meaning in all this. Let is be
'this' way or 'that' way, let it be or not -- give up this
delusion and remain enlightened. Page 637
At the end of the period following the cosmic dissolution the
supreme being thinks of the subtle (ativahika) body which arises
in the infinite consciousness. This subtle body thinks of itself
as Brahma, Virat, Visnu, etc. Whatever the subtle body identifies
itself with, that it appears to be. Though all these diverse
entities seem to have been created, it is only an optical
illusion. For nothing is ever created. Everything is but the pure
void which pervades all. The beginningless Brahman alone exists.
However, on account of the fact that this cosmic subtle body
entertains the notion that it experiences this diversity, such
diversity seems to be uncontradicted truth. Page 695
What is inquiry? To enquire thus: "Who am I? How has this
evil of samsara (repetitive history) come into being?" is
true inquiry. Knowledge of truth arises in oneself; and from such
knowledge there follows tranquility in oneself; and then there
arises the supreme peace that passeth understanding and the
ending of all sorrow. Inquiry is not reasoning or analysis; it is
directly looking into oneself. Page 33
Diversity has no real existence except in one’s own
imagination. ‘All this is indeed the absolute Brahman’
~ remain established in this truth. Give up all other notions.
Even as the waves, etc. are non-different from the ocean, all
these things are non-different from Brahman. Even as in the seed
is hidden the entire tree in potential, in Brahman there exists
the entire universe for ever. Even as the multicolored rainbow is
produced by sunlight, all this diversity is seen in the one. Page
152
There is no world in Brahman but Brahman sees or experiences a
world. This perception is not a fact or reality but just a
notion. Page 578