Excellence of Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2017-08-16

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

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“Know, O high-minded Rāma, that this work is the best of all scriptures on spiritual knowledge. It is the auspicious Mahā-Rāmāyaṇa, the scripture of scriptures. This Rāmāyaṇa is the best of histories, and it serves to enlighten understanding. It is known to contain the essence of all histories. By hearing these doctrines one easily finds his liberation coming of itself to him. This is why it is regarded as the most holy writing.” — 3.8.8–10

“One feels himself liberated in this life by listening to these lectures, just as one finds himself healed of a disease by the potion of some effective medicine. The attentive hearer of these lessons perceives their efficacy in himself in the same way as one feels the effects of curses or blessings that always have their full effects in time. All worldly miseries are at an end with he who considers well these spiritual lectures within himself. A similar effect is hard to produce through charity or austerities, or through performing rituals ordained in the ancient Vedic texts, or through the many hundreds of practices that scriptures describe.” — 3.8.15–17

“This collection of thirty-two thousand ślokas is judged to contain the essence of the means to liberation and to confer the final annihilation of individuality. As a lamp presents its light to every waking man, so does this work effect the ultimate enlightenment of every person whether he would like it or not. One’s knowledge of this work, whether by his own perusal or hearing about it from others’ repetition, tends to the immediate obliteration of his errors and to the increase of his delight, as if done by the holy Ganges river of heaven. As the fallacy of mistaking a rope for a snake is removed by examining it, so the fallacy of the reality of the world is removed by reading and studying this work, which gives peace to one who is vexed and tired of the world.” — 2.17.6–9

“All the existing scenes of the world will vanish upon their mature consideration, just like thoughts in a dream are dispersed after waking and realizing one had been dreaming. Whatever there is in other works can also be found herein, but what is found here cannot be found elsewhere. Therefore the learned call this the treasury of philosophy. Whoever attends to these lectures every day shall have his excellent understanding undoubtedly stored day by day with transcendent knowledge of divinity. He who finds this scripture to be disagreeable to his polluted taste, may prefer to browse some other scripture that is more wordy and eloquent.” — 3.8.11–14

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