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

Chapter 4: THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA-MAHÁRÁMÁYANA
By Valmiki
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A series of philosophical dialogues between a royal pupil and his sage expound on consciousness, illusion, and liberation, using parables and cosmological descriptions to examine ignorance, the illusory nature of cause and effect, and the unity of divinity and world. Through stories of transmigration, animal fables, a hunter and gnat, and a vanished corpse, alongside analyses of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, the text probes the mind's pervasiveness, karma, and nirvana, offers meditative practices and admonitions for sensory control, and presents lectures on pantheism and transcendental truth aimed at dissolving mental torpor and guiding toward living liberation.

THE
YOGA-VÁSISHTHA-MAHÁRÁMÁYANA

CHAPTER CVI.
Invalidation of the Doctrine of cause and effect 569
CHAPTER CVII.
The nature of ignorance or illusion of the Mind 577
CHAPTER CVIII.
Description of the knowledge and ignorance of the soul 579
CHAPTER CIX.
Fighting with the invading armies at the gate of the city 585
CHAPTER CX.
Battle of the wise Princes, with the ignorant Barbarian 590
CHAPTER CXI.
The flight of the soldiers on all sides 596
CHAPTER CXII.
Flight of the Foreign Fœs 602
CHAPTER CXIII.
Description of the Ocean 607
CHAPTER CXIV.
Description of the Prospects all-around 612
CHAPTER CXV.
The same subject continued 617
CHAPTER CXVI.
Narration of the speech of Crow and Cuckoo 625
CHAPTER CXVII.
Description of the Lotus lake, Bee and the Swan 637
CHAPTER CXVIII.
Description of deer, peacocks, cranes &c. 643
CHAPTER CXIX.
Lamentation of the Lovelorn Traveller 648
CHAPTER CXX.
Description of various objects on all sides 652
CHAPTER CXXI.
Exposition of the story of Vipaschit 657
CHAPTER CXXII.
The King’s survey of the sea, and his locomotion on it 659
CHAPTER CXXIII.
The King’s Excursions on all sides 662
CHAPTER CXXIV.
Quadripartite state of the King Vipaschit 665
CHAPTER CXXV.
On the Living liberation of the Prince 669
CHAPTER CXXVI.
Resuscitation and conduct of the Vipaschitas 679
CHAPTER CXXVII.
Cosmology of the universe 683
CHAPTER CXXVIII.
The vacuum of Brahma and the sight of the world therein 686
CHAPTER CXXIX.
Vipaschit’s becoming a stag 692
CHAPTER CXXX.
Entering of the stag into the fire 698
CHAPTER CXXXI.
Bhása’s account of the worlds and his journeys throughout 702
CHAPTER CXXXII.
Bhása’s Relation of the Transmigrations of his soul 710
CHAPTER CXXXIII.
Story of the Wonderful carcass 713
CHAPTER CXXXIV.
The Story of the carcass continued 717
CHAPTER CXXXV.
Disappearance of the carcass, and the Reappearance of the earth 724
CHAPTER CXXXVI.
Story of the Gnat and Hunter 726
CHAPTER CXXXVII.
Description of the states of waking, sleeping and dreaming 730
CHAPTER CXXXVIII.
The Pervasion of the mind throughout the universe 737
CHAPTER CXXXIX.
Description of the Dissolution of the world 742
CHAPTER CXXXX.
Workings of Imagination 750
CHAPTER CXXXXI.
Description of the Termination of a Kalpa-period 758
CHAPTER CXXXXII.
Ascertainment of Karma or acts of men 760
CHAPTER CXXXXIII.
Ascertainment of Nirvána or ultimate Extinction 767
CHAPTER CXXXXIV.
Investigation into the nature and Vicissitudes of things 778
CHAPTER CXXXXV.
Description of the Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping states 785
CHAPTER CXXXXVI.
Disquisition of sound sleep 794
CHAPTER CXXXXVII.
The Phenomenon and Perspection of dreams 798
CHAPTER CXXXXVIII.
Investigation into the nature of dreams 802
CHAPTER CIL.
Investigation into the Original cause 807
CHAPTER CL.
Transcendental Admonitions 812
CHAPTER CLI.
View of Inexistence 818
CHAPTER CLII.
The sage’s discourse at night 820
CHAPTER CLIII.
One soul is the cause of all 823
CHAPTER CLIV.
Relation of Past events 826
CHAPTER CLV.
Relation of Future Fortune 829
CHAPTER CLVI.
Expostulation on Sindhu by his Minister 835
CHAPTER CLVII.
The Ultimate Extinction or Nirvána of Sindhu 839
CHAPTER CLVIII.
Fall of the Huge body of the Hunter 844
CHAPTER CLIX.
Wandering of Vipaschit 847
CHAPTER CLX.
Description of heaven and Hell 855
CHAPTER CLXI.
Explanation of Nirvána 861
CHAPTER CLXII.
Annihilation of ignorance 867
CHAPTER CLXIII.
Means and manner of governing the senses and sensible organs 870
CHAPTER CLXIV.
Unity of the Divinity and the Mundane World 878
CHAPTER CLXV.
On the Similarity of Waking and Dreaming 880
CHAPTER CLXVI.
On the Attributes of the Divine spirit, in the form of a Dialogue 883
CHAPTER CLXVII.
Absence of the threefold states of Waking, Dreaming and Sleep 888
CHAPTER CLXVIII.
Story of the Hewn statue or Carved Image 894
CHAPTER CLXIX.
Description of the calm and tranquil Mind 901
CHAPTER CLXX.
On the conduct of the sapient Man 907
CHAPTER CLXXI.
Meditation of Pure Vacuum 911
CHAPTER CLXXII.
Establishment of the identity of the Diety and the World 918
CHAPTER CLXXIII.
Brahma Gítá or a Lecture on spirituality 924
CHAPTER CLXXIV.
The same or a lecture on Nirvána 929
CHAPTER CLXXV.
Paramártha Gítá or Lecture on Transcendentalism or the solity 933
CHAPTER CLXXVI.
Brahma Gítá. Account of Brahmánda or Mundane system 943
CHAPTER CLXXVII.
Brahma Gíta. Description of Divine Nature 946
CHAPTER CLXXVIII.
Brahma Gíta. Narrative of Aindava 952
CHAPTER CLXXIX.
The Doctrine of Pantheism or the One as all 960
CHAPTER CLXXX.
Brahma Gíta or the story on austere devotee 963
CHAPTER CLXXXI.
Brahma Gíta continued 968
CHAPTER CLXXXII.
Brahma Gíta continued. Sovereignty of the seven continents 973
CHAPTER CLXXXIII.
Description of the seven Continents 979
CHAPTER CLXXXIV.
A Lecture on the all comprehensiveness of the soul 988
CHAPTER CLXXXV.
Admonition to and clairvoyance of Kunda-danta 995
CHAPTER CLXXXVI.
Demonstration of all nature (and thing) as Brahma himself 998
CHAPTER CLXXXVII.
Of the Living creation 1009
CHAPTER CLXXXVIII.
Description of the Living soul 1017
CHAPTER CLXXXIX.
On the unity of the Divine spirit 1021
CHAPTER CLXXXX.
Ecstasies or inertness of Ráma 1024
CHAPTER CLXXXXI.
Solution of the great question of unity and duality 1037
CHAPTER CLXXXXII.
On the attainment of spiritual Anæsthesia 1040
CHAPTER CLXXXXIII.
Mental torpor or tranquility 1043
CHAPTER CLXXXXIV.
Ráma’s rest in Nirvána insensibility 1045
CHAPTER CLXXXXV.
Lectured on the Enlightenment of Understanding 1051
CHAPTER CLXXXXVI.
Story of wood-cutter and his gem 1060
CHAPTER CLXXXXVII.
On the Excellence of Universal Toleration 1064
CHAPTER CLXXXXVIII.
Excellence of Universal Toleration 1069
CHAPTER CLXXXXIX.
State of Living Liberated Man 1075
CHAPTER CC.
The Loud applause of the court on the sage’s speech 1081
CHAPTER CCI.
Explanation of rest and repose in ultimate and perfect bliss 1089
CHAPTER CCII.
Remembrance of the assembly to their Hypnotic rest 1094
CHAPTER CCIII.
Description of Nirvána or self extinction in divine meditation 1096
CHAPTER CCIV.
Identity of Abstract Intellectuality and Vacuity 1102
CHAPTER CCV.
Reputation of the doctrine of the causality of creation 1106
CHAPTER CCVI.
The great inquiry, or questions of the Buddhist 1112
CHAPTER CCVII.
Replies to the aforesaid queries (of the Buddhist) 1117
CHAPTER CCVIII.
Solution of the great question 1122
CHAPTER CCIX.
On the consciousness or the intuitive knowledge of extraneous existences 1126
CHAPTER CCX.
Reputation of the conception of a duality in unity 1132
CHAPTER CCXI.
Lecture on transcendent truth 1138
CHAPTER CCXII.
On ascertainment of truth 1143
CHAPTER CCXIII.
Narration of Ráma’s prior pupilage under Vasishtha 1147
CHAPTER CCXIV.
Description of the great jubilee of the assembly 1154
CHAPTER CCXV.
Eulogy on this work and the mode of its recital 1161
CHAPTER CCXVI.
Conclusion of the celestial messenger’s message of liberation 1164