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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 3 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)

Chapter 1: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

Through dialogues, parables, and philosophical exposition, the work examines techniques of meditation and stages of pranava yoga and samadhi, instructions on breath control, and practical methods for stilling the mind. It interweaves allegorical narratives with analytical chapters that probe nondualism, the unreality of mental phenomena, the transience of worldly attachments, and the nature of self and consciousness. Emphasis falls on renunciation, inner tranquillity, and means of attaining living liberation, offering ethical counsel, psychological insight, and contemplative practices toward spiritual repose.

Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent punctuation has been silently corrected.

Obvious misspellings have been silently corrected, and the following corrections made to the text. Other spelling and hyphenation variations have not been modified.

Page 985, section 21:
exhalted -> exhaled
Page 1018, section 36:
before blazing -> blazing before
Page 1065, section 11:
you that -> that you
Page 1081, section 37:
guána -> jnána
Page 1110, section 23:
breathing intends -> breathing in, tends
Page 1145, section 30:
cannot the living -> cannot be the living
Page 1154, section 12:
to found -> to be found

The spelling of Sanskrit words are normalized to some extent, including correct/addition of accents where necessary. Note that the author uses á, í, ú to indicate long vowels. This notation has not been changed.

The LPP edition (1999) which has been scanned for this ebook, is of poor quality, and in some cases text was missing. Where possible, the missing/unclear text has been supplied from another edition, which has the same typographical basis (both editions are photographical reprints of the same source, or perhaps one is a copy of the other): Bharatiya Publishing House, Delhi 1978.

A third edition, Parimal Publications, Delhi 1998, which is based on an OCR scanning of the same typographical basis, has also been consulted.

The term “Gloss.” or “Glossary” probably refers to the extensive classical commentary to Yoga Vásishtha by Ananda Bodhendra Saraswati (only available in Sanskrit).

These shortcomings of the LPP ed. were corrected:

  • Page i: page reference for Quiescence of Uddálaka was corrected from 992 to 983.
  • Pages 1035 and 1037 in the printed book were exchanged and have been transcribed in their correct places.
  • Page 1125: verse 19 missing (the printed book has a blank page here).