Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha 1.31—Rama's Questions Part 2
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2017-09-02

This series is classified Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga | Turīya | Sahasrāra-cakra

What can we do under the misty cloud of errors that raise our tempestuous desires, flashing forth in lightning of ambition and bursting out in thunderclaps of selfishness?

How shall we save ourselves from the temptations of our desires that dance around us like peacocks? 

How shall we save ourselves from the bustle of the world that breaks in on us as thickly as the blossoms of the kurchi plant?

How can we fly from the clutches of cruel Fate who, like a cat in the twinkling of an eye, suddenly springs upon his prey and kills the living as if they were poor mice?

To what expedient, what course, what reflections, and what refuge must we have recourse in order to avoid the unknown tracks of future lives? 

How can one relish this accursed, troublesome and vapid world unless he is infatuated by ignorance?

How is the mist of our desires, which darkens the moon of our intellects, to be dispelled from our minds to make it shine forth in its full brightness?

How are we to deal with this wilderness of the world, knowing well that it is destructive both of our present and future interests?
Who is there who moves about in this ocean of the earth and who is not buffeted by the waves of his passions and diseases, and by the currents of his enjoyments and prosperity?

How may one who has fallen into the furnace of this earth escape unburned like mercury?

How can one be rid of the world when it is impossible for him to avoid dealing with it, in the same manner as it is impossible for aquatic animals to live without their native element?

How did the ancient saints flee out of the reach of misery, so that I may learn the same to suppress my false conceptions?

Or is there no such knowledge in existence, or if there is, is it to be kept secret from to me?

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