the one Self
just as the trees on the bank of a lake are reflected in the water so also all these varied objects are reflected in the vast mirror of our consciousness.
This creation which is a mere play of consciousness, rises up like the delusion of a snake in a rope and comes to an end when there is right knowledge.
Even though bondage does not really exists it becomes strong through desire for worldly enjoyments. When this desire subsides, bondage becomes weak.
Like waves rising up from the ocean, the unstable mind rises up from the vast and stable expanse of the supreme Self.
It is because of that, which always of its own, accord which imagines everything quickly and freely that this magical show of the world is projected in the waking state.
This world, though unreal, appears to exist and is the course of live long suffering to an ignorant person just as the non existent ghost is the course of fear to a child.
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If you separate yourself from the body and abide at ease in consciousness you will become One, the sole reality.
Everything else appears insignificant, ....
After knowing that by which you know this, the world, turn the mind inward and then you will see clearly the effulgence of the Self.
That by which you recognize sound, taste, form and smell, - know that as yourself, the supreme Brahman, the Lord of Lords.
That in which beings vibrate, that which creates them, - know that Self to be your real Self.
After rejecting, through reasoning, all that can be known as non- truth, what remains as pure consciousness, regard that as your real Self.
Knowledge is not separate from you, and that which is known is not separate from knowledge, hence there is nothing other than the Self, nothing separate from it.
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from Yoga Vashishta Sara
the one Self
just as the trees on the bank of a lake are reflected in the water so also all these varied objects are reflected in the vast mirror of our consciousness.
This creation which is a mere play of consciousness, rises up like the delusion of a snake in a rope and comes to an end when there is right knowledge.
Even though bondage does not really exists it becomes strong through desire for worldly enjoyments. When this desire subsides, bondage becomes weak.
Like waves rising up from the ocean, the unstable mind rises up from the vast and stable expanse of the supreme Self.
It is because of that, which always of its own, accord which imagines everything quickly and freely that this magical show of the world is projected in the waking state.
This world, though unreal, appears to exist and is the course of live long suffering to an ignorant person just as the non existent ghost is the course of fear to a child.
...
If you separate yourself from the body and abide at ease in consciousness you will become One, the sole reality.
Everything else appears insignificant, ....
After knowing that by which you know this, the world, turn the mind inward and then you will see clearly the effulgence of the Self.
That by which you recognize sound, taste, form and smell, - know that as yourself, the supreme Brahman, the Lord of Lords.
That in which beings vibrate, that which creates them, - know that Self to be your real Self.
After rejecting, through reasoning, all that can be known as non- truth, what remains as pure consciousness, regard that as your real Self.
Knowledge is not separate from you, and that which is known is not separate from knowledge, hence there is nothing other than the Self, nothing separate from it.
...
from Yoga Vashishta Sara