Yoga Vasistha of Valmiki (Set of 4 Volumes)

About the Book:

The yoga or contemplative philosophy of the Hindus is rich, exuberant, grand, and sublime, since it comprehends within its ample sphere and deep recesses of meditation, all that is of the greatest value, best interest, and highest importance to mankind as physical, moral, intellectual, and spiritual beings, a knowledge of the cosmos of the physical and intellectual worlds.

The principal Gods Brahma and Siva are represented as Yogis, the chief sages, Vyasa. Valmiki, Vasistha, and Yajnavalkya were propounders of the Yoga system; the saints, one and all, were adepts in yoga. Yogavasistha is the greatest work of the Yoga-philosophy by Valmiki, known by several names. This work has six chapters known as prakaranas as 1. Vairagava prakarana, 2. Mumuksu vyahara prakarana, 3. Utpatti prakarana, 4. Sthiti prakarana, 5. Upasama prakarana 6. Nirvana prakarana.

The present Edition of the translator Vihari Lal Mitra comes from a Bengali Background; his diction is sometimes found impressed with a Bengali accent. This is why he has written sattva as sottva, arghya as orghya, asattva as asuttva, etc., at all such places, a correct rendering of spellings has been made by the present editor without having learned Bengali accent. The translator has mistaken Samadhi for hypnotism; to avoid confusion, Samadhi has been rendered as Samadhi for lack of any synonym thereof. Since this and other Yogic terms are peculiar to Sanskrit, they don't have their exact equivalents in other languages of the world. The old English usage sometimes takes its course in the translation in land, so the present editor has replaced all such usages with the modest terms available in the English language. Some stanzas were also not translated there according to the Sanskrit text of the Nirvana Sagar edition. So, for the benefit of the readers, those have been translated by the editor.

The most conspicuous feature of the present edition is that it contains the Sanskrit text in its original form along with the English translation, complete in all respects. Hope the present edition would be capable of fulfilling the long felt and most ardent need of the readers and researchers.

Introduction

Yogavasistha is known by several names, e.g., Maharamayana, Arsaramayana, Vasistaramayana, Jnanavasistha, or Vasistha. This work has six chapters known as prakaranas, as under-

1. Vairagya prakarana
2. Mumuksu vyahara prakarana
3. Utpatti prakarana
4. Sithiti prakarana
5. Upasama prakarana
6. Nirvana prakarana

Nirvana prakarana is further divided into two part paravardha (first half) and Uttararha (second half). As per the description of Yogavasistha, this work contains 32,000 slokas

Moskhopayabhidhaneyam Samhita sarasammita
Trimsat deva ca saharani Jnata nirvanadayini.

But the available editions do not contain the prescribed number of verses.

The manuscript of Yogavasistha preserved in the India office literary of London contains 28660 slokas. The Yogavasistha published from Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay, contains 27687 slokas. Though several other manuscripts are available, all of them are incomplete and fragmentary. From time to time, scholars have been producing the Yogavasistha in fragments as per their interests and objectives. Today, Yogavasishta is available in the market in the following pocket-sized edition, e.g.

Laghu Yogavasistha
Yogavasistha sloka
Yogavasistha sara
Vasistha sara
Jnavasistha samuccaya etc.

We come across several commentaries on Yogavasistha. Advayaranya, son of Narahari, attempted his commentary on the Yogavasistha in the name of Vasistha Ramayana-candrika. In the nineteenth century, Ananda Bodhendra Sarasvati, the disciple of Ganga Dharenddra, wrote in Tatparya Tika on Yogavasistha. Gangadharendra wrote two bhasya on it. Madhava Sarasvati Pada Candrika commentary on this work.

Yogavasistha is a vast and bulky work. In fact, it is composed of several upalkhyanas, which mainly contributed to its vast size. There are 53 important Upakhyanas in this work. They are as follows.

1. The story of Yogavasistha 2. The conversation between Rama and Vasistha 3. The story of Suka 4. Vasistha's story of Origin and acquisition of knowledge. 5. The story of Akasaja 6. The story of Lila. 7. The story of Karkati Raksasi. 8. The story of the sons of Indu Brahmana. 9. The story of Ahilya and Indra. 10. The story of Citta. 11. The story of Bala. 12. The story of Indrajala. 13. The story of Sukra. 14. The story of Dama, Vyala, and Kata. 15. The story of Bhima Bhasa and Drdha. 16. The story of Dasura. 17. Kacagita. 18. The story of Janaka achieving Jivanmukti. 19. The story of Puny and Pavana. 20. The stories of Bali. 21 Prahalada. 22. Gadhi, 23. Uddalaka, 24. Suraghu 25. Vitahavya, 26. Kak Bhusunda. 27. Queen Cudala and Sikhidhvaja, 28. Isvara, 29. Arjuna, 30. Satarudra. 31. Vetala, 32. Bhagiratha, 33. Rani Cudala 34. Kirata, 35. Manikaca, 36. Hastika, 37. Kaca, 38. Iksvaku, 39. A Muni settled in Tuiyavastha 40. Vidyadhara, 41. Indara, 42. Manki 43. Manoharina, 44. Pasana, 45. Vipacit, 46. Vatadhana princes, 47. Sava 48. Sila, 49. Brahmanda, 50. Aindava 51. Bilva, 52. Tapasa, 53. Kasthavaivadhika.

Yogavasistha imfact is the compilation of discourses delivered by the great sage Vasistha to Ram at the time of his assuming the kingship of Ayodha. Taking the opportunity of that historic occasion, Vasistha, as per tradition, delivered his lectures on varied topics dealing with the spiritual origin of the cosmos and human beings' attainment of moksha through yoga and Samadhi. The present treatise is bulkier in size and shape than the Ramayana. It sheds ample good light on the time period of Rama's social customs and Vedic rituals prevalent then. It also helps unravel the mysteries of creation decreation ad Avataras. It helps in ascertaining the geographical limits, i.e., longitudes and latitudes of various places during that period. Valmiki is the author of this earliest great work on yoga.

Monier Williams, in his work on India wisdom, took notice of this work as under:

“There is a remarkable work called Vasistha Ramayana or Yoga Vasistha or Vasistha Maharamayana in the form of an exhortation with illustrative narratives addressed by Vasistha to his pupil, the youthful Rama, on the best means of attaining true happiness and considered to have been composed as an appendage to the Ramayana by Valmiki himself. There is another work of the same nature called the Adhyatam Ramayana, which is attributed to Vyasa and treats of the moral and theological subjects connected with the life and acts of the great hero of Indian history. Many other works are extant in the vernacular dialects having the same theme for their subject, which is needless to notice in this place.”

Vasistha, known as the wisest of sages, puts forth in the first part the great question of the vanity of the world, which is shown synthetically to a great length from the state of all living existences, the instinct inclinations and passions of men the nature of their aims and objects, with some discussions about destiny, necessity, activity, and the state of the soul and spirit. The second part embraces various directions for the union of the individual with the universal consciousness, the subjective and the objective truth, and the common topics of yoga philosophy.

While narrating the stories of creation and decreation, Kaka Bhusunda has repeatedly been quoted as the previous authority whose tradition has been described as the witness of all the changes and alterations in the natural course.

Clarification regarding Kaka Bhusunda: It is often considered in the Puranaika circles that Kaka Bhusunda was a crow, but this was not the case. Kaka Bhusunda was the name of a person. Keeping in view the same notion regarding Kaka Bhusunda, the present translator has unnecessarily applied terms like and bird crow etc. to this name, while the actual author of the verses had no such mention thereof. Moreover, wherever the words like vayasa or khaga have been used by the author, they only denote the bhudunda as a man styled and addressed with attributive epithets khaga or vayasa due to the similarity of his name to the bird crow.

In fact, there has been a tendency among the interpreters of Sanskrit texts to put literal translation of every word, whether it is a proper name, too. I have come across a good deal of examples of this type of tendency. The interpreters of the Rgveda have also translated the names of the seers into their translated version, e.g., sata vaikhanas has been translated as Hundred Vaikhanas. Some other translators of panctantra have translated the proper name Puspdanta as flower truth. Actually, these are examples of sheer folly on the part of translators. How can one translator hazara singh as thousand lion? Similarly, in the present context, it is necessary to observe that Kaka is the name and it should not be translated as crow.

To acquaint the readers with the type of knowledge disseminated by Yogavasistha. We render her under a few of the contents.

Contents
Volume 1st

	Vairagya Prakarana
	Book 1
Chapter 1	Introduction
Section 1	Divine Adoration	1
Section 2	Narrative of Suktiksna	1
Section 3	Anecdote of Karunya	1
Section 4	Story of Suruci	2
Section 5	Account of Aristanemi	3
Section 6	History of Rama	5
Chapter 2	Reason for writing the Ramayana	6
Section 1	Persons entitled to its perusal	6
Section 2	Brahma behest	7
Section 3	inquiry of bharadvaja	7
Chapter 3	Valmiki admonition	8
Section 1	On True Knowledge	8
Section 2	Early History of Rama	10
Section 3	Rama Pilgrimage	11
Chapter 4	Rama’s return from pilgrimage	12
Chapter 5	Of Rama’s self-dejection and its cause	12
Chapter 6	Advent of Visvamitra to the Royal court	14
Section 2	Address of King Dasaratha	16
Chapter 7	Visvamitra request for Rama	18
Chapter 8	Dasaratha replies to Visvamitra	20
Chapter 9	Visvamitra's wrath and his enraged speech	22
Chapter 10	Melancholy of Rama	24
Chapter 11	Consolation or Rama	28
Chapter 12	Rama replay	30
Chapter 13	Vituperation of Riches	32
Chapter 14	Depreciation of Human Life	34
Chapter 15	Obloquy of egoism	36
Chapter 16		37
Chapter 17	On cupidity	39
Chapter 18	Obloquy of the Body	43
Chapter 19	Blemishes of bodyhod	18
Chapter 20	Vituperation of youth	50
Chapter 21	Vituperation of women	53
Chapter 22	Obloquy of old age	56
Chapter 23	Vicissitudes of times	58
Chapter 24	Ravages of time	61
Chapter 25	Sports of death	62
Chapter 26	The act of destiny	65
Chapter 27	Vanity of the world	68
Chapter 28	Mutability of the world	72
Chapter 29	Unreliability of worldly times	75
Chapter 30	Self disparagement	77
Chapter 31	Queries of Rama	79
Chapter 32	Praises of Rama Speech	81
Chapter 33	Association of aerial and earthly beings	83
	Mumuksu Prakarana
	Book II
Chapter 1	Liberation of Sukadeva	87
Chapter 2	Speech of Visvamitra	90
Chapter 3	On the repeated creations of the world	92
Chapter 4	Praise of acts and exertions	95
Chapter 5	Necessity of activity	97
Chapter 6	Refutation of fatalism	99
Chapter 7	On the necessity of activity	102
Chapter 8	Invalidation of destiny	105
Chapter 9	Investigation of acts	107
Chapter 10	Dissensions of knowledge	110
Chapter 11	On the qualifications of the inquire and the lecturer	113
Chapter 12	Greatness of true knowledge	118
Chapter 13	On peace and tranquility of mind	120
Chapter 14	On the ascertainment of an argument	126
Chapter 15	On contentment	130
Chapter 16	On good conduct	131
Chapter 17	On the contents of the work	134
Chapter 18	Ascertainment of the example of a major proposition	138
Chapter 19	Ascertainment of true evidence	143
Chapter 20	On good conduct	146
	Utpatti Prakarana: Evolution of the world
	Book III
Chapter 1	Causes of Bandage to it	148
Section 1	Exordium	148
Section 2	Wordly Bondage	148
Section 3	Phase of the spirit	149
Section 4	Nature of Bondage	150
Chapter 2	Speech of Visvamitra	153
Chapter 3	Causes of bondage in the body	157
Chapter 4	Section 1 Description of the nightfall	160
Section 2	Nature of the mind	164
Section 3	Kaivalya or mental abstraction	164
Chapter 5	On the original cause	167
Chapter 6	Admonition for the attempt at liberation	169
Chapter 7	Recognition of the nihility of the phenomenal world	171
Chapter 8	Nature of good Sastras	175
Chapter 9	On the supreme cause of all	176
Chapter 10	Description of the chaotic state	182
Chapter 11	Spiritual view of creation	188
Chapter 12	The idealistic theo-cosmogony of Vedanta	190
Chapter 13	On the production of the self-born	195
Chapter 14	Establishment of Brahma	198
Chapter 15	Story of the temple and its prince	205
Chapter 16	Joy and grief of the princes	208
Chapter 17	Story of the doubtful realm or reverie of Lila	211
Chapter 18	Exposure of the errors of the world	216
Chapter 19	Story of a former Vasistha and his wife	219
Chapter 20	The moral of the tale of Lila	221
Chapter 21	Guide to peace	223
Chapter 22	Practice of wisdom or wisdom in practice	232
Chapter 23	The aerial journey of spiritual bodies	234
Chapter 24	The aerial journey (continued)	235
Chapter 25	Description of the Earth	240
Chapter 26	Meeting the siddhas	243
Chapter 27	Past lives of Lila	247
Chapter 28
Section1	exposition of lila vision	252
Section 2	description of the mountainous habitation	253
Chapter 29	Account of the previous life of Lila	257
Chapter 30	Description of the mundane egg	261
Chapter 31
Section 1	Alighting of the ladies on earth	264
Section 2	Sight of a Battle Array in earth and air	265
Chapter 32	Onset of the War	266
Chapter 33	Combining fighting	269
Chapter 34	Description of the battle	272
Chapter 35	Description of the battlefield	276
Chapter 36
Section 1	Collision of Equal arms and armigers	279
Section 2	Catalogue of the forces	280
Chapter 37	Catalogue of the force (Continued)	284
Chapter 38	Cessation of the war	288
Chapter 39	Description of the battlefield infested by nocturnal friends	292
Chapter 40	Reflection on human life and mind	295
Chapter 41	Discrimination of error	300
Chapter 42	Philosophy of dreaming	305
Chapter 43	Burning of the city	308
Chapter 44	Spiritual interpretation of the vision	313
Chapter 45	Theism consisting the true knowledge	317
Chapter 46	Onslaught of Viduratha	319
Chapter 47	Encounter of Sindhhu and Viduratha	321
Chapter 48	Description of daivastras or supernatural weapons	324
Chapter 49	Description of other kinds of weapons	330
Chapter 50	Death of Vuratha conclusion	333
Chapter 51	Description of sindhu dominions	338
Chapter 52	State of man after death	339
Chapter 53	Representations of reminiscence	344
Chapter 54	Reflections of death	347
Chapter 55	The states of life and death	353
Chapter 56	State of the soul after death	359
Chapter 57	Phenomena of dreaming	363
Chapter 58	Revival of Padma	367
Chapter 59	The extinction of Padma's life	371
Chapter 60	On duration, time, and thoughts of the mind	373
Chapter 61	On the nature of the world	378
Chapter 62	Interpretations of destiny	382
Chapter 63	Immutability of the divine mind	385
Chapter 64	The germinating seed	386
Chapter 65	Nature of the living soul	389
Chapter 66	Meditation on the subjective and objective	391
Chapter 67	Lecture on truth	393
Chapter 68	Description of Raksasi	401
Chapter 69	Story of Visucika	103
Chapter 70	Conduct of Visuci or the adventure of the needle	105
Chapter 71	Remorse of Suci	412
Chapter 72	Fervor of scui devotion	415
Chapter 73	Narada relation of suci devotion	418
Chapter 74	Consummation of suci devotion	423
Chapter 75	Suci’s regaining her former frame	425
Chapter 76	Refraining from unlawful food	427
Chapter 77	Deliberation of Karkati	429
Chapter 78	Conference on the Raksasi	432
Chapter 79	Interrogatories of the Raksasi	435
Chapter 80	Solution of the questions	439
Chapter 81	Congeries of spiritual doctrines	445
Chapter 82	Friendship of the Raksasi	454
Chapter 83	Worship of Kandara Alias Mangala	459
Chapter 84	Development of the germ of the mind	460
Chapter 85	Interview of Brahma and the Sun	466
Chapter 86	Story of Indu and his sons	470
Chapter 87	Analecta of the celestial spheres	474
Chapter 88	Indifference of Brahma	476
Chapter 89	Story of Indira and Ahalya	477
Chapter 90	Love of the fictitious Indra and Ahalya	482
Chapter 91	Incarnation of the living soul or jiva	483
Chapter 92	On the power of the mind	488
Chapter 93	A view of the genesis of the mind and body	491
Chapter 94	Brahma, the origin of all	494
Chapter 95	Identity of the actor and his action	496
Chapter 96	Inquiry into the nature of the mind	500
Chapter 97	The magnitude of the sphere of the intellect	508
Chapter 98	History of the human heart	511
Chapter 99	History of the heart	514
Chapter 100	Healing of the heart	517
Chapter 101	Story of the boy and the three princes	521
Chapter 102	On the indivisibility and immortality of the soul	525
Chapter 103	On the nature of the mind	529
Chapter 104	Story of a magic scene	531
Chapter 105	The breaking of the magic spell	534
Chapter 106	The talisman of the king's marriage with a candle maid	537
Chapter 107	Description of a train of dangers	542
Chapter 108	Description of a draught and dearth	546
Chapter 109	Migration of the candalas	549
Chapter 110	Description of Mind	551
Chapter 111	Healing of the heart and mind	557
Chapter 112	The restlessness of the mind and its cure	561
Chapter 113	Description of Ignorance and Delusion	563
Chapter 114	Description of errors	568
Chapter 115	Causes of happiness and misery	575
Chapter 116	Birth and incarnation of adepts in yoga	577
Chapter 117	Different states of knowledge and ignorance	580
Chapter 118	Directions to the stages of knowledge	583
Chapter 119	Illustration of the Gold ring	586
Chapter 120	Lamentation of the candela woman	590
Chapter 121	Proof of the futility of the mind	593
Chapter 122	Ascertainment of the self or soul	599

Contents
Volume 2nd

	Sthiti prakarana on ontology or existence
	Book IV
Chapter 1	Janya-Jani-Nirupana	1
Chapter 2	The receptacle of the mundane egg	4
Chapter 3	Eternity of the world	6
Chapter 4	Treating the germ of existence	8
Chapter 5	Story of Bhargava	9
Chapter 6	Elysium of Bhargava	11
Chapter 7	Reunion of the lovers	13
Chapter 8	Transmigrations of Sukra	15
Chapter 9	Description of sukra body	17
Chapter 10	Bhrgu conference with Kala or death	19
Chapter 11	Cause of the production of the world	24
Chapter 12	Detailed account of the genesis of the world	30
Chapter 13	Consolation of Bhrgu	32
Chapter 14	Sukra's reminiscence of his metempsychosis	33
Chapter 15	Lamentation and expostulations of Sukra	37
Chapter 16	Resuscitation of Sukra	41
Chapter 17	Attainment of the ideal realm	43
Chapter 18	The incarnation of the living spirit	45
Chapter 19	Investigation into the nature of the living soul	51
Chapter 20	Description of the mind	54
Chapter 21	On the philosophy of the mind	55
Chapter 22	Resting in supreme felicity	60
Chapter 23	Meditation on the wonders in the realm of the body	63
Chapter 24	The non-entity of the mind	68
Chapter 25	Narration of dama, vayala, and kala	70
Chapter 26	Battle of the deities and demons	73
Chapter 27	Admonition of Brahma	77
Chapter 28	The renewed battle between the god and the demons	80
Chapter 29	Defeat of the demons	84
Chapter 30	Account of the subsequent lives of the demons	86
Chapter 31	Investigation of reality and unreality	88
Chapter 32	On good conduct	92
Chapter 33	Consideration of egoism	96
Chapter 34	End of the story of Dama and Vyala	102
Chapter 35	Description of insouciance	105
Chapter 36	Description of the intellectual sphere	110
Chapter 37	Upasama, the sameness or quietism of the soul	113
Chapter 38	The same quietness or quietude of the spirit	115
Chapter 39	On the unity of all things	118
Chapter 40	Brahma Identical with the world	123
Chapter 41	Description of ignorance	126
Chapter 42	Production of jiva or living souls	129
Chapter 43	The repositories of life's souls	133
Chapter 44	The incarnation of the human soul in the world	136
Chapter 45	Dependence of all on god	141
Chapter 46	Description of living liberation	144
Chapter 47	Description of the worlds and their demiurgs	147
Chapter 48	Story of Dasura	154
Chapter 49	Description of dasura kadamba forest	157
Chapter 50	Dasura survey of the heavens	160
Chapter 51	Dasura begets a son	161
Chapter 52	Grandeur of the air-borne king	163
Chapter 53	Description of the mundane city	166
Chapter 54	Corrective of desires	170
Chapter 55	Meeting of Vasistha and Dasaura	173
Chapter 56	On the soul and its inertness	176
Chapter 57	Nature of volleity and nolleity	180
Chapter 58	The song of Kaca	185
Chapter 59	Works of Brahma's creation	186
Chapter 60	Production of living beings	190
Chapter 61	Scrutiny into the nature of god	192
Chapter 62	Speech of the divine messenger	194
	The Upasama Khanda (on quietism)
	Book V
Chapter 1	The ahnika or Daily ritual	197
Chapter 2	Rama’s recapitulation of Vasistha's lectures	200
Chapter 3	Description of the royal assembly	203
Chapter 4	Inquiries of Rama	206
Chapter 5	Lecture on the tranquility of the soul and mind	208
Chapter 6	Lecture on the discharge of duty	212
Chapter 7	Or attainment of divine knowledge	214
Chapter 8	Song of the siddhas or holy adepts	215
Chapter 9	Reflection of Janaka	217
Chapter 10	Silent and solitary reflections of Janaka	222
Chapter 11	Subjection of the mind	224
Chapter 12	On the greatness of intelligence	225
Chapter 13	Government of the mind	22
Chapter 14	Ascertainment of the thinking principle	2238
Chapter 15	On avarice	2243
Chapter 16	Healing of avarice	244
Chapter 17	On the extirpation of avarice	246
Chapter 18	Living liberation or true felicity of man in this life	249
Chapter 19	On holy knowledge	254
Chapter 20	Remonstration of Pavana	258
Chapter 21	Repression of desires by means of yoga meditation	261
Chapter 22	Narrative of Viroacana	263
Chapter 23	Speech of Virochana on the subjection of the mind	267
Chapter 24	On the healing and improvement of the mind	270
Chapter 25	Reflection of Bali	275
Chapter 26	Admonition of sukra to bali	277
Chapter 27	Habitude of Bali	279
Chapter 28	Description of Bali anaesthesia	281
Chapter 29	Bali’s resurrection to sensibility	283
Chapter 30	Fall of hiranya kasipu and rise of prahlada	288
Chapter 31	Prahlada's faith in Visnu	290
Chapter 32	The spiritual and formal worship of Visnu	296
Chapter 33	Pralada supplication to Hari	299
Chapter 34	Prahlada self knowledge of spiritualism	301
Chapter 35	Meditation on Brahma in one's self	311
Chapter 36	Hymn to the soul	318
Chapter 37	Disorder and disquiet of the asura realm	324
Chapter 38	Scrutiny into the nature of god	325
Chapter 39	Admonition of hari to prahlada	328
Chapter 40	Resuscitation of Prahlada	332
Chapter 41	Installation of Prahlada in his realm	334
Chapter 42	Spirituality of Prahlada	338
Chapter 43	Rest and repose of Prahlada	340
Chapter 44	Narrative of Gandhi and his destruction	343
Chapter 45	Gadhi reborn as a candela and made king over the kir tribe	346
Chapter 46	Gadhi loss of his visionary kingdom	350
Chapter 47	Verification of Gadhi vision	353
Chapter 48	On the wondrous power of illusion	359
Chapter 49	Gadhi gaining of true knowledge	364
Chapter 50	Intention of Rama	368
Chapter 51	Desire of Uddalaka	376
Chapter 52	Ratiocination of Uddalaka	380
Chapter 53	The rational rapture of Uddalaka	386
Chapter 54	Quiescence of Uddalka	392
Chapter 55	Transcendentalism of Uddalaka	399
Chapter 56	Investigation into meditation and contemplation	402
Chapter 57	Negation of Dualism	407
Chapter 58	Legend of suraghu and admonition of mandyya	410
Chapter 59	Tranquility of Suraghu	413
Chapter 60	Extinction of Suraghu	417
Chapter 61	Meeting of Suraghu and Parigha	418
Chapter 62	On the nature of quietism and quietus	421
Chapter 63	The conclusion of the above	423
Chapter 64	Sermon on self-knowledge	425
Chapter 65	Story of bhasa and vilasa	429
Chapter 66	The transitoriness of life and Evenescene of the world by things	432
Chapter 67	Abandonment of intrinsic relations	435
Chapter 68	Inquiry into the nature of internal and external relations	439
Chapter 69	Freedom from attachment the road to tranquility	443
Chapter 70	Perfect bliss of living liberation	444
Chapter 71	A discourse of the body, mind, and soul	447
Chapter 72	A lecture on the nature of liberation	453
Chapter 73	Inquiry into the nature of the soul	457
Chapter 74	Lecture on apathy or stoicism	460
Chapter 75	On mancipation and emancipation	467
Chapter 76	The world compared with the ocean	472
Chapter 77	Or living liberation	474
Chapter 78	Manner of conducting the yoga	477
Chapter 79	Description of spiritual knowledge	482
Chapter 80	Investigation of the phenomenal	484
Chapter 81	Insubstantiality of the mind	488
Chapter 82	Investigation into the nature of the sensuous mind	489
Chapter 83	On the necessity of avoiding all bodily and worldly cares and abiding in intellectual delights	496
Chapter 84	The mental or imaginary world of the sage	500
Chapter 85	The sages' Samadhi or absorption in the divine spirit	504
Chapter 86	Government of bodily organs	506
Chapter 87	Term the one in various terms	511
Chapter 88	A discourse on yoga meditation	513
Chapter 89	A lecture on rationalistic meditation	515
Chapter 90	Admonition on the mind and its yoga meditation	521
Chapter 91	On the origin of the human body and consciousness	523
Chapter 92	Means of obtaining the divine presence	533
Chapter 93	Universal indifference or insouciance	538

Contents
Volume 3rd

Chapter 1	Description of the evening and Breaking of the Assembly	1
Chapter 2	On the perfect calm and composure of mind	5
Chapter 3	On the unity and universality of Brahma	10
Chapter 4	Went of anxiety in the way of salvation	12
Chapter 5	The narration of Rama's perfect rest	13
Chapter 6	The narration of delirium (Moha)	15
Chapter 7	Magnitude or preponderance of ignorance	20
Chapter 8	Allegory of the spreading arbour of ignorance	26
Chapter 9	Ascertainment of true knowledge	30
Chapter 10	Removal of ignorance	33
Chapter 11	Ascertainment of living liberation	38
Chapter 12	Reanoning on the doubts of the living liberation	48
Chapter 13	The two yogas of knowledge and Reasoning	50
Chapter 14	Narrative of Bhusunda and description of Mount Meru	52
Chapter 15	Vasishta's visit to Bhusanda	54
Chapter 16	Conversation of Vasistha and Bhudunda	58
Chapter 17	Description of Bhusunda's persona	60
Chapter 18	Manners of the matrka goddess	61
Chapter 19	Bhununda nativity and habitation	64
Chapter 20	Explication of the mysterious character of Bhusunda	68
Chapter 21	Explanation of the cause of the crows' longevity	72
Chapter 22	Account of fast ages	77
Chapter 23	Desire of tranquility and quiescence of the mind	81
Chapter 24	Investigation of the living principle	85
Chapter 25	On Samadhi	88
Chapter 26	The relation of the cause of longevity	94
Chapter 27	Conclusion of the narrative of Bhusanda	98
Chapter 28	Lecture on theopathy or spiritual meditation	100
Chapter 29	Pantheism or the description of the world as full of the supreme soul	108
Chapter 30	Inquiry into the nature of the intellect	120
Chapter 31	Identity of the mind and living soul	129
Chapter 32	On the sustention and dissolution of the body	135
Chapter 33	Resolution of duality into unity	140
Chapter 34	Sermon of Siva on the same subject	144
Chapter 35	Adoration of the great God Mahadeva	147
Chapter 36	Description of the supreme deity Parameswara	150
Chapter 37	The stage play and dance of destiny	152
Chapter 38	On the external worship of the deity	155
Chapter 39	Mode of the internal worship of the deity	158
Chapter 40	Inquiry into the nature of the deity	163
Chapter 41	Vanity of the world and worldly things	164
Chapter 42	The supreme soul and its phases and names	169
Chapter 43	On rest and tranquility	172
Chapter 44	Inquiry into the essence of the mind	175
Chapter 45	Story of the vilva or belfruit	178
Chapter 46	Parable of the stony sheath of the soul	181
Chapter 47	Lecture on the density of the intellect	185
Chapter 48	On the unity and identity of Brahma and the world	189
Chapter 49	Contemplation of the course of the world	190
Chapter 50	On sensation and the objects of the senses	194
Chapter 51	On the perception of the sensible objects	197
Chapter 52	Story of Arjuna as the incarnation of Nara Narayana	204
Chapter 53	Admonition of Arjuna	207
Chapter 54	Admonition of Arjuna in spiritual knowledge	213
Chapter 55	Lecture on the living soul or Jivatatwa	216
Chapter 56	Description of the mind	221
Chapter 57	On the abandonment of desire and its result of Tranquility	224
Chapter 58	Arjuna's satisfaction with the sermon	226
Chapter 59	Knowledge of the latent and inscrutable soul	227
Chapter 60	Knowledge of the majesty and grandeur of God	232
Chapter 61	Description of the world as a passing dream	234
Chapter 62	Description of the world as a passing dream	236
Chapter 63	Dream of Jivata	240
Chapter 64	On the attainment of attendantship on the god Rudra	246
Chapter 65	Rama wonders at the error of men	250
Chapter 66	The wanderings of the mendicant	252
Chapter 67	Unity of god	254
Chapter 68	On the virtues of taciturnity	258
Chapter 69	Union of the mind with the breath of life	260
Chapter 70	Interrogatories of Vetala	266
Chapter 71	The princes reply to the first question of the Vetala	268
Chapter 72	Answers to the remaining questions	269
Chapter 73	End of the story of the vetala demon	271
Chapter 74	Account and admonition of Bhgiratha	272
Chapter 75	Supineness of Bhagiratha	275
Chapter 76	The descent of the Ganges on earth	277
Chapter 77	Narrative of cudala and sikhidhwaja	279
Chapter 78	Beatification of Cudala	283
Chapter 79	Princess coming to the sight of the supreme soul	288
Chapter 80	Display of the quintuple elements	291
Chapter 81	Inquiry into Agni Soma or fire and moon	298
Chapter 82	Yoga instructions for the acquisition of the supernatural powers of Anima minuteness, etc.	310
Chapter 83	Story of the miserly Kirata	313
Chapter 84	Pilgrimage of princes, Sikhidhwaja	316
Chapter 85	Investigation into true happiness	321
Chapter 86	The production of the pot (or the embryonic cell)	334
Chapter 87	Continuation of the same and enlightenment of Sikhidhwaja	336
Chapter 88	The tale of the crystal gem	340
Chapter 89	The parable of an elephant	343
Chapter 90	Way to obtain the philosopher's stone	345
Chapter 91	Interpretation of the parable of the elephant	348
Chapter 92	The prince's abjuration of his asceticism	350
Chapter 93	Admonition of Sikhidhwaja	353
Chapter 94	Enlightenment of Sikhidhwaja	359
Chapter 95	The anesthetic Platonism of sihidhwaja	365
Chapter 96	Enlightenment of Sikhidhwaja	368
Chapter 97	Enlightenment of the prince in theosophy	372
Chapter 98	Adomonsition of sikhidhwaja continued	374
Chapter 99	Remonstration of Sikhidhwaja	377
Chapter 100	Continuation of the same subject	380
Chapter 101	Admonition of Cudala	383
Chapter 102	Repose of sikhidhwaja in the divine spirit	388
Chapter 103	Return of Kumbha to the hermitage of Sikhidhwaja	389
Chapter 104	On the conduct of living liberated men	394
Chapter 105	Metamorphoses of Kumbha into a female from	397
Chapter 106	Marriage of Cudala with Sikhidhwaja	401
Chapter 107	The advent of false Indira in the cottage of the Happy pair	107
Chapter 108	Manifestation of Cudala in her own form	409
Chapter 109	Appearance of Cudala in the presence of her lord	412
Chapter 110	Final extinction of Sikhidhwaja	410
Chapter 111	Story of Kaca and his enlightenment by the Brahspati	422
Chapter 112	A fanciful being and his occupation of air Drawn and air-built abodes	426
Chapter 113	The parable of the vain man continued	429
Chapter 114	Sermon on divine and holy knowledge	431
Chapter 115	Description of the triple conduct of men	434
Chapter 116	Melting down of the mind	438
Chapter 117	Dialogue between Manu and Iksaku	439
Chapter 118	Continuation of the same	440
Chapter 119	The same subject continued	442
Chapter 120	Continuation of the same on the seven stages of edification	443
Chapter 121	Continuation of the same	446
Chapter 122	The same manu admonition to Iksaku	447
Chapter 123	On the difference between the knowing and the unknowing	449
Chapter 124	The story of the stage and the huntsman	449
Chapter 125	The means of attaining the steadiness of the turya state	453
Chapter 126	Description of the spiritual state	454
Chapter 127	Admonition to Bharadwaja	462
Chapter 128	Resuscitation of Rama	468

Contents
Volume 4rth

Chapter 1	On unintentional acts and actions	1
Chapter 2	Burning of the seeds of action for the prevention of their vegetation	4
Chapter 3	Disappearance of the phenomenal	9
Chapter 4	Annihilation of egoism	13
Chapter 5	Narrative of a vidyadhara and his queries	17
Chapter 6	Description of disaffection and disgust with the world	19
Chapter 7	Description of the seed of the arbor of the world	23
Chapter 8	Description of the Temple of Illusion	25
Chapter 9	On the development of intellect	28
Chapter 10	Description of creation as an emanation from Brahma	29
Chapter 11	On truth and right knowledge	31
Chapter 12	On the identity of the will and its work, of the desire and its production	32
Chapter 13	Anecdote of Idra and an account of the atomic world	36
Chapter 14	Story of Indrani and the establishment of the identity of the acts of creation and imagination	39
Chapter 15	The final extinction of the Vidyadhara	41
Chapter 16	Extinction of Vidyadhara (Continued)	43
Chapter 17	Lecture on the Annihilation of Egoism	44
Chapter 18	Description of the university sphere	45
Chapter 19	Description of the form or Virat or the all comprehending diety	50
Chapter 20	Lecture on the extinction of the living soul	53
Chapter 21	What constitutes truth, knowledge	55
Chapter 22	The yoga conducive to happiness or the way to Happiness	56
Chapter 23	Story of a pious Brahmana and his Nirvana extinction	61
Chapter 24	Indifference or insouciance of Manki to worldliness	65
Chapter 25	Vasistha's admonition to Manki	67
Chapter 26	Manki's attainment of final extinction or Nrvana	70
Chapter 27	Sermon on the superior sort of Yoga meditation	74
Chapter 28	Demonstrated conclusion of the doubtful truth	76
Chapter 29	Sermon on holy meditation	79
Chapter 30	Sermon on spirituality, sermon on the means of attaining the Nirvana extinction	86
Chapter 31	Sermon on the means of attaining the nirvana extinction	89
Chapter 32	Sermon inculcating the knowledge of truth	92
Chapter 33	Sermon on the true sense of truth	95
Chapter 34	Sermon on the practice of spiritual yoga or intellectual meditation	99
Chapter 35	Description of the supreme Brahma	103
Chapter 36	Sermon on the seed or source of the world	107
Chapter 37	A lecture on the visible and the visible world	110
Chapter 38	Disquisition of nirvana quietism	118
Chapter 39	Vasistha gita or sermon on the sweet peace of mind	112
Chapter 40	On the quiescence of the soul	125
Chapter 41	Repose in one essential nature	126
Chapter 42	A lecture on the extinction of nirvana	129
Chapter 43	On the infinite extension of Brahma	133
Chapter 44	Dangers to which the wandering (stage-like) mind is exposed	139
Chapter 45	Continuation of the story to the deer-like mind	143
Chapter 46	On abstract mediation and hypnotism	148
Chapter 47	The first step towards liberation	150
Chapter 48	On the dignity of right discrimination	154
Chapter 49	Total stoicism and insouciance	158
Chapter 50	Description of the seven kinds of living beings	163
Chapter 51	Admonition to arrive at the yoga of the ultimate best	165
Chapter 52	Description of the form and attributes of Brahma	169
Chapter 53	Explanations of Nirvana anaesthesia	173
Chapter 54	Establishment of the undivided individual of god	175
Chapter 55	The spiritual sense of the world	178
Chapter 56	Story of the great stone and Vaishtha meditation	180
Chapter 57	On the knowledge of the known and unknown	183
Chapter 58	Proving the creation as divine attributes	186
Chapter 59	Description of the network of the world	188
Chapter 60	The network of the world (continued)	193
Chapter 61	On the identity of the world with infinite vacuity	198
Chapter 62	The unity of the intellect with the intellectual world	201
Chapter 63	Unity of the universe with the universe soul	205
Chapter 64	Sport of the heavenly Nymphs	208
Chapter 65	Life and conduct of the ethereal nymph	214
Chapter 66	Description of the inside of the stony mansion of the world	216
Chapter 67	Praise of continued practice or the force of habit	218
Chapter 68	The fallacy of the existence of the world	222
Chapter 69	Entrance into the cosmical stone of the mundane egg	226
Chapter 70	The words of the creator of worlds in the mundane stone	228
Chapter 71	Description of final dissolution	231
Chapter 72	Description of nirvana or final extinction	235
Chapter 73	Description of the persona of virat the god of nature	238
Chapter 74	Description of the cosmical body of Virat (continued)	242
Chapter 75	Description of the final conflagration of the world	245
Chapter 76	The strider of Puskravarta clouds	250
Chapter 77	Description of the world over flooded by the rains	253
Chapter 78	Descriptions of the universal ocean	257
Chapter 79	Maintenance of in appetency of want to desire	259
Chapter 80	The world proved to be a delusion	563
Chapter 81	Description of the last night of death or general doom	268
Chapter 82	Description of the person of the god Siva	277
Chapter 83	Sight of the mundane god	279
Chapter 84	The relation of Siva and Sakti, or of the holy spirit and its power	282
Chapter 85	The relation of nature and soul, or the prime male and female power	286
Chapter 86	The convertibility of the world of the supreme spirit	289
Chapter 87	The infinity of the world is shown in the material body	294
Chapter 88	Further description of the Earth	300
Chapter 89	The phenomenal is the reproduction of the watery creation	302
Chapter 90	Description of the watery creation	304
Chapter 91	Description of igneous, luminous, and brilliant objects in nature	306
Chapter 92	Description of the current air as the universal spirit	312
Chapter 93	The advent and psalmody of a siddha in the aerial abode of Vasistha	317
Chapter 94	Description of a pisaca and the unity of the world with Brahma	325
Chapter 95	Description of the person of Vasistha	331
Chapter 96	Establishment of immortality	334
Chapter 97	On the rarity and ret redness of religious recluses	337
Chapter 98	Praise of a good society or association with the good and wise	341
Chapter 99	A discourse on esoteric or spiritual knowledge	343
Chapter 100	Refutation of Atheism	348
Chapter 101	A sermon on spirituality	353
Chapter 102	Exposition of Buddhism and disproving of death	356
Chapter 103	Proof of the unity of the deity amidst the variety of creation	361
Chapter 104	Establishment of the non-entity of the world	369
Chapter 105	Likeness of waking and sleeping dreams	370
Chapter 106	Invalidation of the doctrine of cause and effect	374
Chapter 107	The nature of ignorance or the illusion of the mind	379
Chapter 108	Description of the knowledge and ignorance of the soul	380
Chapter 109	Fighting with the invading armies at the gate of the city	384
Chapter 110	Battle of the wise princes with the ignorant Barbarian	387
Chapter 111	The flight of the soldiers on all sides	391
Chapter 112	Flight of the foreign foes	395
Chapter 113	Description of the ocean	398
Chapter 114	Description of the prospects all around	402
Chapter 115	The same subject continued	405
Chapter 116	Narration of the speech of the crow and the cuckoo	411
Chapter 117	Description of the lotus lake bee and the swan	421
Chapter 118	Description of deer, peacocks, and cranes	425
Chapter 119	Lamentation of the lovelorn traveller	428
Chapter 120	Description of various subject n all sides	431
Chapter 121	Exposition of the story of Vipassana	434
Chapter 122	The king surveyed the sea and his locomotion on it	436
Chapter 123	The king excursions on all sides	438
Chapter 124	Quadripartite state of the king vipascit	439
Chapter 125	On the living liberation of the prince	442
Chapter 126	Resuscitation and conduct of the vpiascitas	448
Chapter 127	Cosmology of the universe	451
Chapter 128	The vacuum of Brahma and the sight of the world therein	453
Chapter 129	Vipascit is becoming a stage	456
Chapter 130	Entering the stage into the fire	461
Chapter 131	Bhasa's account of the world and his journey throughout	463
Chapter 132	Bhasa's relation to the transmigration of his soul	469
Chapter 133	Story of the wonderful carcass	471
Chapter 134	The story of the carcass continued	474
Chapter 135	Disappearance of the carcass and the reappearance of the earth	479
Chapter 136	Story of the gnat and the hunter	480
Chapter 137	Description of the states of waking, sleeping, and dreaming	483
Chapter 138	The pervasion of the mind throughout the universe	488
Chapter 139	Description of the dissolution of the world	491
Chapter 140	Workings of imagination	497
Chapter 141	Description of the termination of a kalpa period	503
Chapter 142	Ascertainment of karma or acts of men	504
Chapter 143	Ascertainment of nirvana or ultimate extinction	508
Chapter 144	Investigation into the nature & vicissitudes of things	515
Chapter 145	Description of the waking, dreaming, and sleeping states	520
Chapter 146	Disquisition of sound sleep	526
Chapter 147	The phenomenon and perception of dreams	528
Chapter 148	Investigation into the nature of dreams	531
Chapter 149	Investigation into the original cause	534
Chapter 150	Transcendental admonitions	538
Chapter 151	View of in existence	542
Chapter 152	The sage discourse at night	543
Chapter 153	One should be the cause of all	544
Chapter 154	Relation of past events	546
Chapter 155	Relation of future fortune	548
Chapter 156	Expostulation of Sindhu by his minister	552
Chapter 157	The ultimate extinction of the nirvana of Sindh	555
Chapter 158	The fall of the huge body of the hunter	558
Chapter 159	Wandering of vipascit	540
Chapter 160	Description of heaven and hell	565
Chapter 161	Explanation of nirvana	570
Chapter 162	Annihilation of ignorance	574
Chapter 163	Means and manner of governing the senses and the sensible organs	576
Chapter 164	Unity of the divine and the mundane world	581
Chapter 165	On the similarity of waking and dreaming	582
Chapter 166	On the attributes of the divine spirit in the form of dialogue	584
Chapter 167	Absence of the threefold state of waking, dreaming, and sleep	587
Chapter 168	Story of the hewn statue or carved image	595
Chapter 169	Description of the calm and tranquil minds	596
Chapter 170	On the conduct of the sapient man	600
Chapter 171	Meditation on pure vacuum	603
Chapter 172	Establishment of the identity of the deity and the world	608
Chapter 173	Brahma Gita or a lecture on spirituality	612
Chapter 174	The same or a lecture on nirvana	615
Chapter 175	Paramartha Gita or a lecture on transcendentalism or the soleity	618
Chapter 176	Brahma Gita account of Brahmanda or mundane system	624
Chapter 177	Brahma Gita description of divine nature	627
Chapter 178	Brahma Gita narrative of Aindava	630
Chapter 179	The doctrine of pantheism, or the one as all	636
Chapter 180	Brahma Gita or the story on austere devotee	638
Chapter 181	Brahma Gita continued	641
Chapter 182	Brahma Gita continued the sovereignty of the seven continents	645
Chapter 183	Description of the seven continents	649
Chapter 184	A lecture on the all-comprehensiveness of the soul	655
Chapter 185	Admonition to and clairvoyance of Kundadanta	660
Chapter 186	Demonstration of all nature (and things), Brama himself	662
Chapter 187	Of the living creation	670
Chapter 188	Description of the living soul	675
Chapter 189	On the unity of the divine spirit	678
Chapter 190	Ecstasy or intertness or Rama	680
Chapter 191	Solution of the great question of unity and duality	690
Chapter 192	On the attainment of spiritual anaesthesia	691
Chapter 193	Mental torpor or tranquility	693
Chapter 194	Rama rests in Nirvana in insensibility	695
Chapter 195	Lectured on the enlightenment of understanding	699
Chapter 196	Story of a woodcutter and his gem	705
Chapter 197	On the excellence of learning	707
Chapter 198	Excellence of universal toleration	710
Chapter 199	State of living liberated man	714
Chapter 200	The loud applause of the court on the sage speech	178
Chapter 201	Explanation of rest and repose in ultimate and perfect bliss	724
Chapter 202	Recumbence of the assembly to their hypnotic rest	727
Chapter 203	Description of nirvana or self-extinction in divine meditation	728
Chapter 204	Identity of abstract intellectuality and vacuity	732
Chapter 205	Refutation of the doctrine of the causality of creation	735
Chapter 206	The great inquiry or questions of the Buddhist	739
Chapter 207	Replies to the aforesaid queries (of the Buddhist)	742
Chapter 208	Solution of the great question	745
Chapter 209	On the consciousness or intuitive knowledge of extraneous existence	748
Chapter 210	Refutation of the conception of a duality in unity	751
Chapter 211	Lecture on transcendent truth	755
Chapter 212	On ascertainment of truth	758
Chapter 213	Narration of rama prior pupil age under Vasistha	761
Chapter 214	Description of the great jubilee of the assembly	765
Chapter 215	Eulogy on this work and the mode of its recital	770
Chapter 216	Conclusion of the celestial messenger's message of liberation	772

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	Publisher: Parimal Publication Pvt. Ltd.
	Author Ravi Prakash Arya
	Language: Sanskrit Text with English Translation
	Pages: 2402
	Cover: Hardcover
	9.7" X 7.5"
	Weight 4.43 kg
	Edition: 2022
	ISBN: 9788171101511
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