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Yoga Vasistha Thinking
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The ancient yoga book Yoga Vasistha of 29,000 slokas, or verses, is formed as a dialogue between Rama and the sage Vasistha, who says such as, "Talk of duality and non-duality; the enlightened ones laugh at all this."
Contents
Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:
Extraordinary Good Luck
Skill can lead to leaner strivings in time, and next to non-efforts - So, "With
skill", that often helps.Illustrations, such as of fables and parables and paintings, often help. For when a truth that has not been personally experienced is expounded, one does not grasp it except with the help of an illustration. Such illustrations have been used in this scripture with a definite purpose and a limited intention. They are not to be taken literally, nor is their significance to be stretched beyond the intention, says the Yoga Vasistha. When the infinite vibrates, the worlds appear to emerge. Assorted teachings from the ancient yoga classic Yoga Vasistha [Su] follow. The outlooks can give alternative conceptions in the realm you struggle to get to terms with.
If you have the capacity for higher attainments yourself, learn and make fit efforts. That comes first. Don't over-rush.
Handling brambles
Assuming contemplation judo boons foster good luck, delightful practice steers toward
non-efforts. And the fount of good luck may be found as the back of your mind.
Decent practice runs towards
non-efforts
WHAT SHALL I do in this loka of world-appearances? [132]If you want to practice it [good Zen too], you must be earnest, careful and meticulous - have the right view. [cf. Prz 152] ¤
What is so extraordinary and wonderful about ... psychic powers? [359]
If seemingly former and unmodified
deep mind attains to assuming individuality - maybe contemplation-fitted fares and boons
help good luck. Judo is one such asset
THEY SAY the Lord assumes individuality. [cf. 355]The enlightened one is not characterised by characteristics. [359]
The supreme is attained without the least effort. [cf. 255]
The enlightened person could be the back of your mind.
This is the supreme contemplation: unbroken awareness in the garb of pure consciousness - perhaps by kriya. [cf. 255]
It may well be that what is well designed to be at the background and fit in at that place, hardly thrives in some foreground or limelight. ¤
The supreme ... is unmodified consciousness. [255]
The unconditioned others deserve
non-motivational friends - they could even be the very best of friends
VARIOUS fruits of ignorance are in part transcendental, and yet ... [cf. 234]"They who know the mind say the mind is the "I". ... This ego-sense is but a word. Give it up ... [give up that verbal] conditioning. [355]
Attain to the unconditioned self-knowledge - some call it atma-jnana. [cf. 355] ¤
This is something to keep some of the good old friends: "The skilled analytical approach helps one in being and remaining authentic, and is especially favourable in the face of the hitherto mystical. A very intellectual procedure is often slow too, yet it can be the first step upwards - at times towards higher attainments." [cf. Prz 61]
On the voyage toward enlightenment there could be many skerries.
The actions of one who has attained self-knowledge are not motivated, he is non-volitional ... he is not agitated by others; he does not agitate others. [359]
Remain, and free from likes, if you can. [cf. 376]
Realise perfection, and thus world-pleasures.
This mind is like a cloud of ignorance. It had better abstain from all concepts and precepts. [cf. 183]
Omnipresent guru mind is without beginning and end. That is also known as existence or reality. [cf. 274] This is the harsh thing to tell your friends: "There are many who pretend to despise that which is beyond their reach. (American proverb)" [Ak 500] ¤
What notions help?
Gain just helpful notions.
Various truths are different
from the end state 'truth'
THEY SAY Truth is omnipresent and can be referred to in various ways. [cf. 234]Summary
- Decent practice on and up runs towards non-efforts.
- Assuming individuality, contemplation-fitted fares and boons could favour good luck itself.
- The unconditioned others deserve non-motivational friends - they could even be the very best of friends.
- The end state is spoken of in different ways.
If you are lazy, it might reflect solid worth inside yourself. And individuality
could favour good luck too. The very best friends need no motivations to be your best
friends. They just are friends to be reckoned with.
Training and Maturation
In the chateau of the French painter Francis Picabia (1879-1953) the rooms were
designed with different themes; the children's room was furnished with grotesque masks,
instruments of torture, witchcraft trappings, and a mechanical ghost that could be animated
at night to rattle chains. The painter chose this theme for the children's room because he
believed in training them in fearlessness from an early age."When they get a bit older, I shall replace the ghost with a creditor waving an unpaid bill," he said.
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Adjoined
Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) Oxford University, New York, 1996.Prz: Chang, Garma: The Practice of Zen. Perennial/Harper. New York, 1970.
Su: Venkatesananda, sw. tr: The Supreme Yoga. Yoga Vasistha. 3rd ed. Chiltern Yoga Trust. Freemantle, Australia, 1984.
Yv: Venkatesananda, sw. tr: The Concise Yoga Vasistha. State University of New York. Albany, 1984.
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