Yoga Vashista

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The mind is the hub around which this vicious cycle

revolves, creating delusion in the minds of the

deluded.

 

It is by firmly restraining that hub through intense

self-effort and keen intelligence that the whole wheel

is brought to a standstill.

 

When the hub's motion is stopped, the wheel does not

revolve: when the mind is stilled... illusion ceases.

One who does not know this trick and does not practise

it, undergoes endless sorrow. The moment the truth is

seen, behold... the sorrow comes to an end.

 

The disease of the perception of this world-illusion

is not cured except through the mastery of the mind,

which is its only remedy. Hence, abandon all other

activities like pilgrimage, gifts and austerities, and

bring the mind under your control for your ultimate

good.

 

The world appearance abides in the mind, even as there

is space in the pot; if the pot is broken, the

illusory division of space vanishes; and if the mind

ceases to be, the concept of a world within the mind

also ceases to be.

 

Even as an insect trapped within the pot attains

freedom of movement when the pot is broken, you will

also enjoy freedom when the mind ceases to be, along

with the world-illusion contained in it.

 

Live in the present, with your consciousness

externalized momentarily but without any effort: when

the mind stops linking itself to the past and to the

future it becomes no-mind. If from moment to moment

your mind dwells on what is and drops it effortlessly

at once, the mind becomes no-mind, full of purity.

 

It is only as long as the mind continues to be

agitated that it experiences the diversity of its own

projection or expansion, even as rain falls only as

long as there are clouds. And, it is only as long as

infinite consciousness limits itself into the finite

mind, that such agitation and expansion take place. If

consciousness ceases to be the finite mind, then know

that the very roots of cyclic world-illusion are

burnt, and there is perfection.

Love Jac

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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