Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha 1.33—The Celestial Sages
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2017-09-04

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

“We admire the prince’s blessed and graceful speech dignified with the spirit of detachment that breathes through the whole of it. It is full of thought. It is perspicuous, elegant, clear, dignified, sweet and worthy of noble-minded men by its lucid style and lack of faults. Who is not struck with admiration at Rāma’s speech? It expresses his thoughts well, correct in its diction, plain, sweet and agreeable to all. It is rare to find one man among a hundred who is so eloquent, combining dignity and force with clarity and sweetness such that they command the admiration of all. Who has such a clear head as our prince, a head that is as penetrating as the best pointed arrow, and as fruitful and beautiful as a creeping vine plant? He is truly a man whose intellectual light, like that of Rāma, burns like the flame of a lamp within himself and enlightens all about him.” — 1.33.29-34

“In every forest trees grow with good flowers and leaves, but the extraordinary and fair clove tree is not always to be found. Rāma has displayed the wonder of his knowledge, like the moon displays her cooling beams, and good trees their clusters of blossoms, and like flowers diffuse their fragrance all about. It is very difficult to get the essence of true knowledge in this accursed world constructed by the uncontrollable and dominant predestination of our past acts. Only those are reckoned the best of men and leaders of the good who try their best to gain the essence of truth, and whose minds are fixed on glory as their best treasure. We do not see anyone in all this world equal to Rāma in discrimination and magnanimity, nor shall there be one like him in future. This is our firm conviction.” — 1.33.41-45

Themes of Rāma’s Monologue:

• Wealth
• Human Condition
• Selfish Ego 
• Uncontrollable Mind
• Limitless Greed
• Fragile Body
• Childhood
• Youth & Adolescence 
• Opposite Sex
• Old Age 
• Influence of Time
• Influence of Change
• Inevitability of Death
• Inevitability of  Destiny
• Worldly Vanity
• Worldly Mutability
• Worldly Unreliability
• Unreliability of Self

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