Dreams of a New Earth

"THUS I HEARD IT SAID..."

VASISTHA: All indeed is the self, which is supreme peace and infinite. Realise this, O Rama. The self and the world are neither identical nor are they different. All this is but the reflection of the truth. Nothing but the one Brahman exists. 'I am different from this' is pure fancy; give it up, O Rama. The one self perceives itself within itself as the infinite consciousness. Therefore, there is no sorrow, no delusion, no birth (creation), nor creature; whatever is, is. Be free from distress, O Rama. Be free of duality; remain firmly established in the self, abandoning even concern for your own welfare. Be at peace within, with a steady mind. Let there be no sorrow in your mind. Rest in the inner silence. Remain alone, without selfwilled thoughts. Be brave, having conquered the mind and the senses. Be desireless, content with what comes to you unsought. Live effortlessly, without grabbing or giving up anything. Be free from all mental perversions and from the blinding taint of illusion. Rest content in your own self. Thus, be free from all distress. Remain in an expansive state in the self, like the full ocean. Rejoice in the self by the self, like the blissful rays of the full moon.

"THUS I HEARD IT SAID..."

VASISTHA: O Rama, for your spiritual awakening I declare again and again: this world appearance is like a long dream. Wake up, wake up. Behold the self which shines like a sun. You are indeed awakened by this shower of nectarine words: you have nothing to do with birth, sorrow, sin and delusion. Abandon all these notions and rest in the self.

Vasistha, who suddenly became silent when he found that Rama was completely absorbed in the self, resumed his discourse after an interval and after Rama had returned to normal consciousness:

O Rama, you are thoroughly awakened and you have gained self-knowledge. Remain forever in this exalted state; do not get involved in this world-appearance. This wheel of world-appearance (the wheel of birth and death of all things) has ideas, thoughts, or notions for its hub. When these are arrested the world-appearance ceases, too.

"THUS I HEARD IT SAID..."

"The one infinite consciousness alone shines in all names and forms.

     The self ignorantly imagines an egotistic existence even as if gold forgetting its goldness might think it is a ring and weep and wail “Alas, I have lost my goldness”. Without real existence is this illusory notion of egotism. This egotism does not exist in the infinite self.

     In the infinite self there is no creator, no creation, no worlds, no heaven, no humans, no demons, no bodies, no elements, no time, no existence and no destruction, no 'you', no 'I', no self, no that, no truth, no falsehood, no notion of diversity, no contemplation and no enjoyment. Whatever is, and is known as the universe, is that supreme peace.

There is no beginning, no middle and no end: all is all at all times, beyond the comprehension of the mind and the speech.

There is no creation. The infinite has never abandoned its infinity. That has never become this. It is like the ocean, but without ocean's movement. It is self-luminous like the sun, but without activity.

     In ignorance, the supreme being is viewed as the object, as the world. Even as space exists in space, one with space, even so what appears to be the creation is Brahman existing in Brahman, as Brahman. The notions of far and near, of diversity, of here and there are as valid as the distance between two objects in a mirror in which a whole city is reflected."

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