TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

BOOK I - ON DETACHMENT - VAIRAGYA KHANDA

 

BOOK I On Detachment (Vairagya Khanda)

 

Chapter 1 — Introduction: Sutikshna & Agastya; Karunya & Agnivesya; Suruchi & Divine Messenger; King Arishtanemi, Indra & Valmiki
Chapter 2 — Reason for Writing the Ramayana
Chapter 3 — Valmiki Explains Desires & Describes Rama’s Pilgrimage to Bharadwaja
Chapter 4 — Rama’s Return from Pilgrimage
Chapter 5 — Rama’s Self-Dejection & Its Cause
Chapter 6 — Vishwamitra Arrives at the Royal Court
Chapter 7 — Vishwamitra Asks for Rama’s Help
Chapter 8 — Dasharata’s Reply to Vishwamitra
Chapter 9 — Vishwamitra’s Anger & Vasishta’s Advice
Chapter 10 — The Melancholy of Rama
Chapter 11 — Consolation of Rama
Chapter 12 — Rama’s Reply
Chapter 13 — Denunciation of Wealth
Chapter 14 — Denunciation of Human Life
Chapter 15 — Denunciation of Ego
Chapter 16 — The Inability to Control the Mind
Chapter 17 — Rama on Greed
Chapter 18 — Denunciation of the Body
Chapter 19 — Blemishes of Boyhood
Chapter 20 — Denunciation of Youth
Chapter 21 — Denunciation of Women
Chapter 22 — Denunciation of Old Age
Chapter 23 — The Vicissitudes of Time
Chapter 24 — The Ravages of Time
Chapter 25 — The Play of Death
Chapter 26 — The Acts of Destiny
Chapter 27 — The Vanity of the World
Chapter 28 — Mutability of the World
Chapter 29 — Unreliability of Worldly Things
Chapter 30 — Self-Disparagement
Chapter 31 — Rama’s Questions
Chapter 32 — Praise for Rama’s Speech
Chapter 33 — Association of Celestial & Earthly Beings

 

 

BOOK II - LONGING FOR LIBERATION - MUMUKSHU KHANDA

 

 

 

Chapter 1 — The Liberation of Shukadeva: His Need for Confirmation
Chapter 2 — Vishwamitra’s Speech
Chapter 3 — Repeated Creations of the World; Repeated Incarnations of the Same Personality
Chapter 4 — Results Come from Effort, Not Fate or Chance; Acts of the Present Life Are Stronger than Those of Previous Lives
Chapter 5 — The Necessity of Effort
Chapter 6 — Fate Is the Result of Former Efforts
Chapter 7 — On the Necessity of Activity
Chapter 8 — Invalidation of Destiny
Chapter 9 — Investigation of Acts (Thoughts Are Action; Mind Is Soul)
Chapter 10 — Brahma Propounds the Knowledge of Liberation to Vasishta
Chapter 11 — On the Qualifications of Student and Teacher; the Four Guards at the Door of Liberation
Chapter 12 — The Greatness of True Knowledge
Chapter 13 — On Equanimity (Peace & Tranquility of Mind), the Characteristics of a Saint
Chapter 14 — On Rational Inquiry, the Necessity of Inquiry & Clear Reasoning
Chapter 15 — On Contentment
Chapter 16 — On the Company of the Virtuous and Good Conduct
Chapter 17 — On the Contents of the Yoga Vasishta
Chapter 18 — The Effect of the Yoga Vasishta; Its Similes & Examples
Chapter 19 — Interpretation of Comparisons in the Yoga Vasishta
Chapter 20 — On Wisdom & Good Conduct

 

 

BOOK III - ON CREATION - UTPATTI KHANDA

 

 

BOOK III On Creation (Utpatti Khanda)

 

Chapter 1 — The Appearance of Creation Is from the Mind of Brahma
Chapter 2 — Description of the First Cause: Yama Explains Air-born Brahma to Death; Will without Form or Action
Chapter 3 — Subtle & Gross Bodies; Formless Mind (Brahma) Wills the Appearance of Forms
Chapter 4 — Nightfall; Creation of Objects
Chapter 5 — On the Original Cause (Mula-Karana)
Chapter 6 — Honest Effort Required to Attain Self Knowledge
Chapter 7 — God Is Pure Consciousness; the Phenomenal World Is Non-Existent
Chapter 8 — Nature of Good Scriptures; Yoga Vasishta as the Treasury of All
Chapter 9 — Description of Living & Bodiless Liberation; God as the Supreme Cause of All (Parama Karana)
Chapter 10 — The Emptiness upon Universal Dissolution Is Not Empty; Description of God
Chapter 11 — There Can Be No Creation or Dissolution of Something that Never Existed
Chapter 12 — Detailed Description of Original Creation, Elements in Their Subtle Forms
Chapter 13 — On the Production of the Self-Born
Chapter 14 — No Individual Souls, only One Brahma; Each Is Brahma; Brahma Creates the Rules and Delegates
Chapter 15 — Story of Leela and Saraswati (Padma’s Body on the Shrine)
Chapter 16 — The Lives of Queen Leela & King Padma; Leela Performs Tapas to Saraswati; Padma’s Death
Chapter 17 — Leela Sees Padma and His Court in the Spirit World, Checks Her Own Court to Make Sure It Still Exists
Chapter 18 — Leela Wonders which World Is Real; Saraswati Explains
Chapter 19 — Story of a Former Vasishta & Arundhati
Chapter 20 — Saraswati Explains Leela’s Former Life as Arundhati
Chapter 21 — Saraswati Explains the Practice of Meditation, Astral Travel
Chapter 22 — Practice of Wisdom (Vijnana-Bhyasa)
Chapter 23 — Saraswati & Leela Meditate & Begin Astral Travel
Chapter 24 — Description of the Astral Journey
Chapter 25 — Description of Astral Travel over the Earth
Chapter 26 — Return to the Holy Brahmin’s House; Description of Gloom; Vasishta Explains Astral Appearance
Chapter 27 — Leela Remembers Her Past Lives
Chapter 28 — Leela’s Vision in Meditation; Description of the Mountain Hamlet
Chapter 29 — Description of Leela’s Life as Arundhati; Description of Astral Travel in Space
Chapter 30 — Vasishta Describes the Universe, the Cosmic Egg (Brahmanda)
Chapter 31 — Leela & Saraswati Arrive on Earth; Fate of Good & Bad Fallen in War
Chapter 32 — Onset of the War
Chapter 33 — The Battle: the Armies Engage
Chapter 34 — The Battle as Seen by Onlookers
Chapter 35 — The Battle: Description of the Battlefield
Chapter 36 — The Battle: Duels between Equals; Catalogue of Forces
Chapter 37 — The Battle: Catalogue of Forces Continued
Chapter 38 — The Battle: End of the Day, the Battlefield after Cessation of Fighting
Chapter 39 — The Battlefield Infested by Nocturnal Fiends
Chapter 40 — Subtle Body & Astral Travel; Intellectual Body; Details on the Process of Death, Conception & Birth
Chapter 41 — Leela & Saraswati enter King Viduratha’s Tent; He Remembers His Past Lives; Everything Is within the Temple of the Mountain Brahmin; Discrimination of Error
Chapter 42 — Philosophy of Dreaming (Swapnam); Creation Is a Dream; Viduratha Asks a Boon to Be Reunited with His (Second) Queen Leela
Chapter 43 — The City Burning
Chapter 44 — Enlightened Leela Sees Viduratha’s Queen Leela; Habits of the Mind Reproduce the Same Images
Chapter 45 — The Second Leela Gets a Boon the First Didn’t: How We Seek Is How We Obtain
Chapter 46 — Viduratha Counter-Attacks
Chapter 47 — Saraswati Explains Why Sindhu Will Win; the Encounter of Sindhu & Viduratha
Chapter 48 — Supernatural Weapons
Chapter 49 — More Supernatural Weapons
Chapter 50 — The Death of Viduratha
Chapter 51 — Sindhu’s Rule
Chapter 52 — The Second Leela Reflects upon the First Leela’s Own Self-Concept: Life after Death
Chapter 53 — The Second Leela Visits the Temple of Dead King Padma; Representations of Memory Are Not the Creations of Brahma
Chapter 54 — Divine Laws underlie Creation; Death as Reward; Life Durations
Chapter 55 — Categories of Death Experiences; Origin of Illusion
Chapter 56 — State of the Soul after Death; Ancestor Worship & Benefits to the Dead
Chapter 57 — Yogis’ Astral Bodies; Phenomena of Dreaming
Chapter 58 — The Two Leelas See Padma Revived
Chapter 59 — Padma & Two Leelas Live Out Their Liberated Lives
Chapter 60 — Time & Reality Are Relative
Chapter 61 — On the Origin of the World
Chapter 62 — Fate Is What Determines the Result of Action
Chapter 63 — No Duality; Only the Appearance of Forms of the One Divine Mind
Chapter 64 — Uncaused Brahma Creates Rules of Causation for Forms
Chapter 65 — Nature of the Individual Soul as the Same as Universal Consciousness
Chapter 66 — Individual Souls Mistake Subjective for Objective
Chapter 67 — Lecture on Creation: Still Consciousness & Moving Thoughts
Chapter 68 — Story of the Demoness Karkati, Vishuchika (Cholera) & Suchi (Needle); Her Tapas
Chapter 69 — Brahma Declares Karkati’s Tapas Complete, Grants Her Boon to Be a Pin to Cause Pain
Chapter 70 — Karkati as Suchi, the Needle of Colic and Cholera
Chapter 71 — Suchi’s Remorse
Chapter 72 — Suchi Again Performs Tapas
Chapter 73 — Narada Explains Suchi’s Tapas to Indra Who Sends Maruta to Disturb Her Tapas
Chapter 74 — Consummation of Suchi’s Tapas
Chapter 75 — Suchi Regains Her Former Frame
Chapter 76 — Refraining from Unlawful Food
Chapter 77 — Karkati Travels to the Land of the Kiratas, Sees a King & His Minister, Debates Food
Chapter 78 — Karkati Confronts the King & His Minister
Chapter 79 — The Rakshasi Karkati’s Questions
Chapter 80 — The Minister’s Answers
Chapter 81 — The King’s Answers
Chapter 82 — Friendship with the Rakshasi; Criminals as Food
Chapter 83 — Worship of Karkati as Kandara Devi or Mangala Devi
Chapter 84 — Imperfect Words Used to Guide to Understanding; the Power of the Mind
Chapter 85 — Brahma Describes His Own Experience; Asks the Sun
Chapter 86 — The Sun’s Story of Indu’s and His Wife’s Tapas & Their Ten Sons, the Aindavas
Chapter 87 — Ten Brother Aindavas Become the Ten Worlds of the Next Day of Brahma
Chapter 88 — Detachment of Brahma; Need to Act; Only One’s Own Mind Can Change One’s Own Mind
Chapter 89 — The Story of the Lovers Indra & Ahalya, the Fixation of Their Minds on Each Other
Chapter 90 — Indra’s & Ahalya’s Attachment through Reincarnations
Chapter 91 — Brahma Wonders Whether to Create; Two Aspects to the Mind
Chapter 92 — A Strong Mind Is Unaffected by Curses
Chapter 93 — Brahma as the Mind: A View of the Genesis of the Mind & Body
Chapter 94 — Fourteen Grades of Beings; Brahma the Origin of All
Chapter 95 — Identity of Mind & Action
Chapter 96 — Different Names for Mind
Chapter 97 — Three Spheres: Pure Consciousness, Mental & Physical
Chapter 98 — Story of the Origin of the Heart; Deluded Men Punishing Themselves in the Desert
Chapter 99 — Heart Origin: Deluded Men in the Desert Explained
Chapter 100 — Healing the Heart: All within God; No Bondage or Liberation
Chapter 101 — An Old Nurse Makes up a Story of Three Princes for a Boy
Chapter 102 — On the Indivisibility and Immortality of the Soul
Chapter 103 — The Changing Mind
Chapter 104 — A Magician, a Horse & a Stunned King Lavana
Chapter 105 — The Magic Spell on King Lavana Is Broken
Chapter 106 — King Lavana Marries a Tribal Maiden
Chapter 107 — Life among the Tribals
Chapter 108 — King Lavana’s Description of Drought & Wildfire
Chapter 109 — Migration of the Tribals; Mind Creates All
Chapter 110 — Description of the Mind’s Play
Chapter 111 — The Necessity to Control the Heart & Mind
Chapter 112 — Motion (Restlessness) Is Inherent in the Mind; the Mind Is Its Own Cure
Chapter 113 — Description of Ignorance & Delusion (Avidya)
Chapter 114 — Description of Error
Chapter 115 — Causes of Happiness & Misery
Chapter 116 — Moral of King Lavana’s Experience; Summary of Creation & Liberation
Chapter 117 — The Seven States of Ignorance
Chapter 118 — The Seven Stages of Knowledge
Chapter 119 — Illustration of the Gold Ring: Form Versus Substance
Chapter 120 — King Lavana Visits the Forest Where He Lived as a Tribal; Lamentation of the Woman Tribal
Chapter 121 — The Reality of King Lavana’s Dream Explained; Proof of the Futility of Mind
Chapter 122 — Ascertainment of the Self or Soul

 

 

BOOK IV - ON EXISTENCE - STHITI KHANDA

 

 

BOOK IV On Existence (Sthiti Khanda)

 

Chapter 1 — Immaterial Spirit Cannot Have a Material Seed to Produce any Material World
Chapter 2 — There Is No Material Explanation for the World; It Exists only in Divine Consciousness
Chapter 3 — The World Is Eternal; There Can Be No Creation or Dissolution
Chapter 4 — The World Exists in the Mind
Chapter 5 — The Story of Shukra (Bhargava): Shukra Falls in Love with a Fairy Nymph
Chapter 6 — Shukra Imagines Indra’s Paradise
Chapter 7 — Shukra Imagines Embracing the Fairy Nymph
Chapter 8 — Reincarnations of Shukra
Chapter 9 — Description of Shukra’s Body during His Austerities
Chapter 10 — Bhrigu’s Anger Evokes Yama Who Describes Shuka’s Many Lives
Chapter 11 — Yama (Time) on the Mind as the Cause Producing the World
Chapter 12 — Yama on the Mistake of Individual Consciousness; Different Levels of Awareness
Chapter 13 — Yama Explains to Bhrigu How Thoughts Create; They Go to Shukra
Chapter 14 — Yama & Bhrigu Awaken Shukra from His Tapas; He Remembers His Past Lives
Chapter 15 — Shukra Laments His Original Body; Behaving in the Physical Body
Chapter 16 — Shukra’s Original Body Is Brought Back to Life
Chapter 17 — The Difference between Shukra’s Daydreams & Ordinary Daydreams
Chapter 18 — Incarnations of the Living Spirit
Chapter 19 — Differences between Waking & Dreaming States
Chapter 20 — The Mind Is the Person, not the Body
Chapter 21 — Philosophy of the Mind Creating Its Own Reality; Different Schools of Thought
Chapter 22 — Qualities of the Mind Resting in Supreme Joy
Chapter 23 — The Wonders within the Realm of the Body
Chapter 24 — The Non-Entity of the Mind
Chapter 25 — Story of Dama, Byala & Kala Created by Demon King Sambara
Chapter 26 — Description of Battle between Gods and Demons
Chapter 27 — Brahma Advises the Defeated Gods to Foster the Demons’ Ego
Chapter 28 — Description of Renewed Battle between Gods & Demons
Chapter 29 — Defeat of the Demons
Chapter 30 — The Subsequent Lives of Dama, Byala & Kata
Chapter 31 — Reality is within God; There Is no Reality without
Chapter 32 — Dama, Byala & Kata Obtain Liberation; On Good Conduct
Chapter 33 — Effort Attains; Ego & Its Three Forms
Chapter 34 — End of the Story of Dama, Byala & Kata: Bhima, Bhasa & Dridha
Chapter 35 — Description of Detachment & Bliss
Chapter 36 — Description of the Intellect’s Creation
Chapter 37 — Upasama: Stillness of the Soul; Apparent Activity of the Mind
Chapter 38 — The Same Stillness of Spirit; the Mind as the Agent
Chapter 39 — Vasishta Postpones the Question of Impurity from Purity; the Unity of All Things
Chapter 40 — Identity of the World with Brahman; Using Words
Chapter 41 — Use of Words; Description of Ignorance
Chapter 42 — From Brahman to Ordinary Mind: Producing Individual Souls
Chapter 43 — Varieties of Living Souls
Chapter 44 — Description of Brahma’s Self-Birth
Chapter 45 — Dependence of All on God; Nothing Is Lost Which Doesn’t Exist
Chapter 46 — Description of Living-Liberation
Chapter 47 — Description of Innumerable Different Worlds, their Gods & Time
Chapter 48 — Story of Dasura; He Receives Agni’s Boon to Live Treetop
Chapter 49 — Description of Dasura’s Kadamba Forest
Chapter 50 — Dasura’s Survey of the Heavens
Chapter 51 — Dasura Begets a Son
Chapter 52 — The Allegory of Air-Born King Khottha (Mind) and His Grand City
Chapter 53 — Explanation of the City
Chapter 54 — Dasura Explains: Desires Vanish when You Give Them No Thought
Chapter 55 — Vasishta and Dasura Meet; Further Description of the Kadamba Forest
Chapter 56 — The Paradox of the Soul as Passive Cause; Spirit & Corporeality Do Not Mix
Chapter 57 — The Question of Duality again Deferred; First Avoid Desire
Chapter 58 — The Song of Kacha
Chapter 59 — How Brahma Creates and Sustains
Chapter 60 — Production of Sattvic and Rajas-Sattvic Beings
Chapter 61 — Rajas and Sattva Qualities to Be Desired
Chapter 62 — Vasishta Exhorts Rama How to Conduct Himself

 

 

BOOK V - ON DISSOLUTION - UPASAMA KHANDA

 

 

BOOK V On Dissolution, Becoming Quiet (Upasama Khanda)

 

Chapter 1 — The Midday Ritual
Chapter 2 — That Night Rama Ponders Vasishta’s Lectures
Chapter 3 — Description of the Royal Assembly
Chapter 4 — Dasharata’s Praise; Rama Asks Vasishta to Continue
Chapter 5 — Lecture on Tranquility of the Soul and Mind
Chapter 6 — Doing One’s Duty; Merit Accrues through Lifetimes
Chapter 7 — Two Ways to Attain Self Realization: Effort & Intuition
Chapter 8 — Janaka Hears the Songs of the Holy Masters (Siddhas)
Chapter 9 — Janaka’s Reflections
Chapter 10 — Silent and Solitary Reflections on Janaka
Chapter 11 — Subjection of the Mind
Chapter 12 — On the Greatness of Reasoning (Self Inquiry)
Chapter 13 — Government of the Mind: Consciousness Is Real, Mind (Imagination and Will) Is Not
Chapter 14 — Impossibility of Curing the World; the Parade of Prey; the Thinking Principle
Chapter 15 — On Greed
Chapter 16 — Two Ways to Abandon Greed: Reason and Insight
Chapter 17 — Describing Liberation while Living and Brahman beyond Words
Chapter 18 — Living Liberation or True Joy of Man; Everything Is Connected
Chapter 19 — On Family Relationships: the Story of Punya and Pavana
Chapter 20 — Punya Reasons with Pavana
Chapter 21 — Suppression of Desires by Suppression of Thoughts
Chapter 22 — The Story of Mahabali, the Benevolent King of Demons, and His Father Virochana
Chapter 23 — Virochana’s Story about the Ruler’s (Soul’s) Undefeatable Minister (the Mind)
Chapter 24 — Virochana on Mind Control: Hiring Teachers and Practicing Reason & Detachment; and Realization
Chapter 25 — Bali Reflects on What His Father Virochana Had Taught
Chapter 26 — Shukra Teaches Bali that All Is Consciousness
Chapter 27 — Bali’s Detachment
Chapter 28 — Bali’s Meditation, Shukra’s Advice to the Demons
Chapter 29 — Bali Returns to Ordinary Consciousness
Chapter 30 — The Story of Prahlada: Narasimha Destroys Hiranyakashipu and the Age of Demons
Chapter 31 — Prahlada Bemoans the Demon’s Loss and Praises Vishnu
Chapter 32 — Prahlada and the Daitya Demons Worship Vishnu; the Gods Complain
Chapter 33 — Vishnu Explains Prahlada to the Gods; Appears to Prahlada
Chapter 34 — Prahlada’s Discrimination Leads to Self Realization
Chapter 35 — Prahlada in Praise of Self Realization
Chapter 36 — Prahlada’s Hymn to the Soul
Chapter 37 — Prahlada Meditates for Thousands of Years; the Asura Kingdom in Chaos
Chapter 38 — Vishnu Decides to Restore Order and Awaken Prahlada
Chapter 39 — Vishnu’s Awakens Prahlada & Exhorts Him to Live Out His Life
Chapter 40 — Vishnu Further Explains Living Liberation to Prahlada
Chapter 41 — Installation of Prahlada in His Kingdom
Chapter 42 — God Realization in the Form One Worships God
Chapter 43 — Worship of the Formless Versus the Forms of God
Chapter 44 — The Story of Gadhi: His Tapas, Vishnu’s Boon, and His Death
Chapter 45 — Gadhi Reborn as a Tribal, then Made Gavala, King of Kirapura
Chapter 46 — Gadhi’s Loss of his Visionary Kingdom
Chapter 47 — A Traveler and a Journey Verify Gadhi’s Dream
Chapter 48 — Gadhi Verifies His Dream Again; Vishnu Explains the Wonderful Power of Illusion
Chapter 49 — Vishnu Instructs Gadhi to Do Ten Years of Tapas; He Attains Self Realization
Chapter 50 — Live in the Present; Trust Consciousness; Control Mind, Heart & Greed
Chapter 51 — The Story of Uddalaka: His Desire for Realization & the Cave
Chapter 52 — Uddalaka Meditates and Reasons
Chapter 53 — Uddalaka’s Reasoning and Bliss
Chapter 54 — Uddalaka’s Meditation and Samadhi
Chapter 55 — The Pure Consciousness and Being of Uddalaka
Chapter 56 — Characteristics of Samadhi; Indifference to Surroundings
Chapter 57 — Dualism Is Innate in the Soul
Chapter 58 — Legend of King Suraghu; His Doubt and Sage Mandavya’s Teaching
Chapter 59 — King Suraghu’s Self Inquiry and Realization
Chapter 60 — King Suraghu’s Realization During and After Life
Chapter 61 — King Parigha’s Tapas; His Meeting with King Suraghu
Chapter 62 — King Suraghu Describes His Samadhi
Chapter 63 — Conclusion of Parigha’s and Suraghu’s Conversation
Chapter 64 — Ignorance, the Life of a Bullock; Samadhi
Chapter 65 — The Story of Bhasa and Vilasa
Chapter 66 — The Two Hermits Wander & Meet in Old Age
Chapter 67 — Soul & Mind Are Unrelated to Phenomena; Abandonment of Intrinsic Relations
Chapter 68 — The Pain of Attachment; the Liberation of Non-Attachment
Chapter 69 — Living without Attachment
Chapter 70 — Perfect Bliss of Living Liberation
Chapter 71 — Samadhi and Beyond; Body Unrelated to Soul; Various Names for Jiva
Chapter 72 — A Lecture on the Nature of Liberation
Chapter 73 — Visualizations of the Soul; Its Experience More Manifest in Living Beings; — Knowledge, not Liberation
Chapter 74 — Qualities of One Who Abides in the Truth
Chapter 75 — Examples of the Living Liberated
Chapter 76 — The World Compared with the Ocean
Chapter 77 — Description of Living Liberation
Chapter 78 — Techniques of Meditation, Pranayama and Inquiry
Chapter 79 — Spiritual Knowledge: All Is Subjective
Chapter 80 — Investigation of Visible Phenomena; Ode to the Death of the Mind
Chapter 81 — The Mind Is Unknowable, Only the Soul
Chapter 82 — Sage Vitahavya’s Self Inquiry into the Nature of His Mind
Chapter 83 — Sage Vitahavya Continues His Self Inquiry, Admonishes Mind, Arrives at Soul
Chapter 84 — Vitahavya’s Tapas; His Mental or Imaginary Worlds
Chapter 85 — Vitahavya’s Samadhi; the Sun God Restores His Body
Chapter 86 — Vitahavya Bids Farewell to His Mind, Bodily Organs
Chapter 87 — Vitahavya’s Samadhi, Union with All
Chapter 88 — Lessons to Be Drawn from Vitahavya’s Tapas
Chapter 89 — Acquiring Powers; How Yogis’ Bodies Survive During Tapas; Yogis’ Thoughts Actualize
Chapter 90 — Two Forms of Mind Extinction: with and without Form
Chapter 91 — Seeds for the Mind: Breathing Vital Breath, Thinking Thoughts, Desires; Thoughts Create Form
Chapter 92 — Means to Obtain Divine Presence: Knowledge of Truth, Subjection of the Mind, and Abandonment of Desires
Chapter 93 — Universal Detachment

 

 

BOOK VI - PART1 - NIRVANA KHANDA - PURVADHA

 

 

BOOK VI, Part 1 On Liberation (Nirvana Khanda - Purvadha)

 

Chapter 1 — Description of Evening and the Assembly Breaks
Chapter 2 — On the Perfect Calm and Composure of the Mind
Chapter 3 — The Unity and Universality of Brahman: Intellect Is the Soul and Is Brahman
Chapter 4 — The Unity and Universality of Brahman: All Derives from Consciousness
Chapter 5 — Rama Acknowledges the Effect of Vasishta’s Preaching
Chapter 6 — Excellent Sayings to Edify the Audience: Disparagement of the Ignorant
Chapter 7 — Condemnation of the Ignorant View of Creation
Chapter 8 — Allegory of the Spreading Tree of Ignorance
Chapter 9 — Three Gunas; Gods are Pure Sattvic; No Such Thing as Ignorance
Chapter 10 — Inert Is Not Realized; Ignorance Is of the All-Pervading God
Chapter 11 — The Supreme Truth: Knowledge of Brahman
Chapter 12 — Qualities of the Self-Realized
Chapter 13 — The Two Yogas of Pranayama and Self Inquiry Lead to Meditation
Chapter 14 — Bhushunda, the Ancient Crow; and Description of Mount Meru
Chapter 15 — Vasishta’s Visit & Description of Meru and Bhushunda
Chapter 16 — Vasishta and Bhushunda Meet; Vasishta’s Question
Chapter 17 — Description of Bhushunda
Chapter 18 — Bhushunda’s Matrika Background, Alambusha; the Matrikas Overpower Parvati
Chapter 19 — Bhushunda’s Birth with Twenty Brothers, Blessings of Brahmi, His Father’s Advice to Live in the Kalpa Tree on Mount Meru
Chapter 20 — Bhushunda’s Survival of the Ends of Ages
Chapter 21 — Explanation of Bushunda’s Longevity; His Memories of the Past
Chapter 22 — Further Memories of Past Ages, Gods and Scriptures
Chapter 23 — Bhushunda’s Fate to Survive Creations; Nothing Is as Precious as Knowing the Soul
Chapter 24 — Bhushunda Describes Vital Air as the Living Principle
Chapter 25 — Bhushunda on Pranayama: the Inward and Outward Breaths and the States in between (Samadhi)
Chapter 26 — Bhushunda’s Self-Control and Spiritual Knowledge Are the Cause of His Longevity
Chapter 27 — Conclusion of the Story of Bhushunda
Chapter 28 — The Body, like Creation, Is a Reflection of the Mind
Chapter 29 — The World Full with Supreme Soul; Shiva Explains the Best Way to Worship God
Chapter 30 — Shiva Explains How the Consciousness Forgets Itself
Chapter 31 — Shiva on Consciousness, Living Soul, Understanding, Mind, Vital Air and the Body
Chapter 32 — Shiva on the Preservation and Dissolution of the Body
Chapter 33 — Shiva: Resolution of Duality into Unity; Creation Really Exists
Chapter 34 — Shiva: Three Stages of Awakening
Chapter 35 — Adoration of the Great God, Mahadeva, in the Form of the Ishtadeva
Chapter 36 — Shiva Describes the Supreme God
Chapter 37 — Shiva: The Stage Play and the Dance of Destiny
Chapter 38 — Shiva on the External and Internal Worship of God
Chapter 39 — Shiva on the Internal Worship of God
Chapter 40 — Shiva on the Worship of God
Chapter 41 — Shiva on How to Know God, the Development of Mind, and Desires & Thoughts Cause Misery
Chapter 42 — Shiva on the Phases and Names of the Supreme Soul; Spiritual Cords
Chapter 43 — Vasishta Exhorts Rama; Rama without Questions
Chapter 44 — Vasishta Praises Rama’s Understanding; Warns Him to Maintain It
Chapter 45 — Parable of the Bael Fruit as Creation
Chapter 46 — Parable of a Carved Rock as the Soul
Chapter 47 — The Density of the Intellect; Bael Fruit, Stones and Peahen Eggs
Chapter 48 — Unity and Identity of Brahma and World; the Realized
Chapter 49 — Changes in the World Are no Changes; Ignorance Does Not Exist
Chapter 50 — How the Soul Receives Sensations and the Objects of Senses
Chapter 51 — One Becomes Many; Ignorance; Consciousness Precedes Sense; Scriptures & Agnostic Doctrines
Chapter 52 — Story of Vishnu’s Dual Incarnations as Krishna and Arjuna
Chapter 53 — Krishna Admonishes Arjuna
Chapter 54 — Krishna Admonishes Arjuna: Do Your Duty with Detachment
Chapter 55 — Krishna: The Soul is Permanent, the Body Perishes; Mind Creates Body
Chapter 56 — Krishna’s Description of the Mind
Chapter 57 — Krishna on the Abandonment of Desire and Result of Tranquility
Chapter 58 — Arjuna Understands Krishna’s Words
Chapter 59 — Knowledge of the Latent and Inscrutable Soul
Chapter 60 — The Majesty and Grandeur of God
Chapter 61 — Description of the World as a Passing Dream
Chapter 62 — The Mendicant’s Idle Thought: the Story of the Hundred Rudras
Chapter 63 — Dream of Jivata: the Hundred Rudras
Chapter 64 — The Attendants of God Rudra; How One Soul Becomes Many
Chapter 65 — Rama’s Wonder at the Error of Men
Chapter 66 — The Mendicant’s Wanderings; Multiple Births with Similar Forms and Personalities
Chapter 67 — The Unity of God; Religious Differences Are Divisive
Chapter 68 — Four Types of Silence (Mouna), the State of Sleep-Silence
Chapter 69 — Samkhya & Jnana Yoga; Mind (Desires) and Vital Breath Linked
Chapter 70 — A Vetala Ghost Questions a Prince
Chapter 71 — Prince’s Answers to the Vetala’s First Question
Chapter 72 — The Prince’s Answers to the Vetala’s Remaining Questions
Chapter 73 — Conclusion to the Story of the Vetala
Chapter 74 — King Bhagiratha Tires of the World, Seeks the Counsel of Sage Tritala
Chapter 75 — Bhagiratha Renounces All and Lives as a Wandering Beggar
Chapter 76 — Bhagiratha’s Tapas Brings the Ganges River down to the Earth
Chapter 77 — The Story of Chudala and Sikhidhwaja
Chapter 78 — The Self Realization of Chudala
Chapter 79 — King Sikhidhwaja Notices the Change in Queen Chudala
Chapter 80 — Sikhidhwaja Laughs at Chudala; Astral Flight; Kundalini to Attain Ends; — the Five-Fold Pattern of Elements
Chapter 81 — Kundalini, Balance of Vital Breath, Physical & Mental Disorders, Simultaneous & Disjunct Causation; The Sun (Knowledge) and Moon (Ignorance) within
Chapter 82 — Instructions for Acquiring Powers
Chapter 83 — Queen Chudala’s Powers, the King’s Ignorance, and the Story of the Miserly Kirata
Chapter 84 — King Sikhidhwaja Abandons His Kingdom for the Life of a Hermit
Chapter 85 — Chudala Appears as a Brahmin Boy to Sikhidhwaja; Narada’s Ejaculation; the Outline of Nature as Created by Brahma
Chapter 86 — Narada’s Sperm Gestates in a Pot and Is Born as Kumbha, Who Is the Brahmin Boy
Chapter 87 — Chudala, as the Brahmin boy, Criticizes Sikhidhwaja’s Withdrawal
Chapter 88 — The Tale of the Rich Man Who Failed to Grasp the Real Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 89 — The Parable of an Elephant Twice Captured
Chapter 90 — Explanation of the Story of the Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 91 — Explanation of the Parable of the Elephant
Chapter 92 — The King Burns His Hermit Possessions
Chapter 93 — Chudala Explains the Meaning of Complete Renunciation
Chapter 94 — Kumbha Enlightens Sikhidhwaja Regarding the Mind and Ultimate Causation
Chapter 95 — Sikhidhwaja Understands that God Is No Cause of Anything Separate
Chapter 96 — Kumbha Explains God and Creation Are the Same; Consciousness Depicts Creation (God) According to Its Thoughts
Chapter 97 — Kumbha: How Variety Appears in Unity
Chapter 98 — Kumbha: Immaterial Cannot Produce Material
Chapter 99 — Kumbha Lectures Sikhidhwaja: All Is Brahman
Chapter 100 — Kumbha Lectures Sikhidhwaja: More on All Is Brahman
Chapter 101 — The Mind of the Living Liberated Is Called Goodness; — Kumbha Advises Sikhidwaja to Abandon His Austerities
Chapter 102 — Kumbha Departs; Sikhidhwaja in Samadhi
Chapter 102 — Kumbha Returns and Awakens the Trace of Life in Sikhidhwaja
Chapter 104 — Sikhidwaja & Kumbha Enjoy Each Other’s Company; — Kumbha on the Needs (Fate) Incident to the Body
Chapter 105 — Kumbha’s Story of Being Cursed by Durvasa, Nightly Changing into a Female
Chapter 106 — Chudala Weds Sikhidhwaja
Chapter 107 — Chudala Makes a False Indra Appear to Test Sikhidwaja
Chapter 108 — Chudala again Tests Sikhidwaja by Taking a Lover; then Manifests in Her Own Form
Chapter 109 — Sikhidwaja & Chudala Reunited
Chapter 110 — Sikhidhwaja Returns to Rule His Kingdom; His Nirvana
Chapter 111 — Story of Kacha & His Enlightenment by Brihaspati
Chapter 112 — Parable of the Aerial Man Building Aerial Homes
Chapter 113 — Explanation of the Parable of the Aerial Man Building Aerial Homes
Chapter 114 — Supreme Spirit, Thought, Creation
Chapter 115 — Shiva Describes the Triple Virtues of Men to the King of the Bhringis
Chapter 116 — Melting Down of the Mind; Self Inquiry
Chapter 117 — Sage Manu Teaches King Ikshaku: Creation Is an Appearance
Chapter 118 — Manu Teaches Ikshaku: Divine Will Creates & Dissolves
Chapter 119 — Manu Teaches Ikshaku: Living in the Spirit
Chapter 120 — Manu Teaches Ikshaku: Seven Stages of Yoga; Living Liberated
Chapter 121 — Manu Teaches Ikshaku: Avoiding the Sense of Ego and Possession
Chapter 122 — Manu Teaches Ikshaku: Manu’s Admonition to Ikshaku
Chapter 123 — Spiritual Powers
Chapter 124 — Three Bodies; Turiya; the Story of the Hunter and the Sage
Chapter 125 — Means of Attaining Steadiness of Turiya State
Chapter 126 — The Seven Stages of Yoga; Each Leads to the Next through Incarnations
Chapter 127 — Valmiki Admonishes Bharadwaja
Chapter 128 — Valmiki Summarizes the Yoga Vasishta for Bharadwaja; Vishwamitra Explains Who Is Rama; Rama Is Brought out of Samadhi

 

 

BOOK VI - PART2 - THE LATTER TREASURY - UTTARADHA BHAGA

 

 

BOOK VI, Part 2 - The Latter Treasury - (Uttaradha Bhaga)

 

Chapter 1 — Passively Act out Your Duties from Prior Lives
Chapter 2 — Lack of Choice Means No Responsibility for Actions
Chapter 3 — Disappearance of Phenomena
Chapter 4 — Annihilation of Egoism
Chapter 5 — Bhushunda’s Story of a Vidyadhara and His Questions
Chapter 6 — The Vidyadhara Expresses His Disgust with the World to Bhushunda
Chapter 7 — Bhushunda Describes the Seed of the Tree of the World
Chapter 8 — Bhushunda Describes the Tree and the Temple of Illusion
Chapter 9 — Bhushunda on the Creations of the Intellect
Chapter 10 — Bhushunda Describes Brahman
Chapter 11 — Bhushunda: Creation Necessarily Is of the Same Nature as Brahman
Chapter 12 — Bhushunda on the Identity of Will & Its Work of Desire; Vasishta on the Four Quarters to Attain Liberation from Ignorance
Chapter 13 — Bhushunda’s Anecdote of Indra’s Rule of an Atomic World
Chapter 14 — Bhushunda: Countless Indras Ruling an Atomic World
Chapter 15 — Bhushunda, the Sense of Ego Is the Seed of Error
Chapter 16 — The Extinction of the Vidyadhara in Samadhi
Chapter 17 — The Minute Seed of Egoism; as a Cannonball
Chapter 18 — All Memories Remain in Bits in the Air; Each Sees Only His Own
Chapter 19 — The Form of Viraj, the Living Cosmos
Chapter 20 — Description of Viraj & the Origin of Individual Life
Chapter 21 — Earning a Living from the Scriptures
Chapter 22 — The Meaning of Knowledge; the Wise and the Not Wise
Chapter 23 — Story of Vasishta Meeting the Brahmin Manki in the Desert Seeking Rest in an Outcaste Village
Chapter 24 — Manki Complains about Life to Vasishta
Chapter 25 — Vasishta Instructs Manki
Chapter 26 — Vasishta’s Teaching Continued; Manki Attains Self Realization
Chapter 27 — All Is One, so We Cannot Conceive Diversity
Chapter 28 — Destiny, Deed, Agent & Doing Are All the Same; God as the Seed
Chapter 29 — Sermon on Holy Meditation
Chapter 30 — Sermon on Spirituality
Chapter 31 — Sermon on the Means of Attaining Extinction
Chapter 32 — Sermon Inculcating Knowledge of Truth
Chapter 33 — Sermon on the True Sense of Truth
Chapter 34 — Sermon on the Practice of Spiritual Yoga
Chapter 35 — Description of the Supreme Brahma
Chapter 36 — Sermon on the Seed or Source of the World
Chapter 37 — If Will Is within God, Why Lecture against Desire?
Chapter 38 — Disquisition of Nirvana — Quietism
Chapter 39 — Vasishta’s Sermon on Peace of Mind
Chapter 40 — On the Quiescence of the Soul
Chapter 41 — Repose in One’s Essential Nature
Chapter 42 — Lecture on Duality within Unity; Worship of God; to Remain Still Is to Be Like God; Mistaken Renunciation Makes Thinks Worse; True Nirvana
Chapter 43 — On the Infinite Extension of Brahma
Chapter 44 — Growing the Tree of Samadhi; the Deer-Like Mind
Chapter 45 — The Deer-Like Mind; Climbing the Tree of Life; Meditation in Samadhi
Chapter 46 — On Samadhi Meditation
Chapter 47 — The First Step towards Liberation
Chapter 48 — The Nature of a Yogi; the Worship of the Lord God
Chapter 49 — The World as Light from Gems; Total Detachment and Indifference
Chapter 50 — Description of the Seven Kinds of Living Beings; We Are Dream-Objects
Chapter 51 — Admonition to Arrive at the Yoga of Ultimate Rest
Chapter 52 — Description of Brahma
Chapter 53 — Knowing the Nature of Brahman is Nirvana
Chapter 54 — There is no Cosmic Seed; only the Consciousness of God
Chapter 55 — The Spiritual Sense of the World
Chapter 56 — Story of Vasishta’s Search for Seclusion and Hundred Year Meditation
Chapter 57 — Vasishta’s Stirring of Ego Dispelled by Certain Knowledge that All Is a Dream
Chapter 58 — There Is Nothing Physical in God Who Is Consciousness
Chapter 59 — Vasishta Seeks the Source of a Sound, Describes Infinite Networks of Alternative Realities
Chapter 60 — Networks of Alternate Realities, Continued
Chapter 61 — Creation and Destruction Are Only Memory and Forgetfulness of the Intellect
Chapter 62 — Identity of Intellect with the Intellectual World
Chapter 63 — Identity of the Universe with the Universal Soul; Dreams within Dreams
Chapter 64 — A Beautiful Vidyadhari Complains to Vasishta about Her Uninterested Husband
Chapter 65 — The Vidyadhari Explains Her Frustration and Prays to Vasishta
Chapter 66 — The Vidyadhari’s Description of the Inside of Her World inside Stone
Chapter 67 — The Vidyadhari Praises Continued Practice, the Force of Habit
Chapter 68 — Vasishta in Samadhi Sees the Pure Ideals from which Intellect Fabricates the Unreal World
Chapter 69 — Vasishta and the Vidyadhari Awaken the Brahmin; He Explains Who Is the Vidyadhari
Chapter 70 — Words of the Brahmin Who Created the Worlds in Mundane Stone
Chapter 71 — Vasishta Describes a Final Dissolution of the World (1)
Chapter 72 — Description of Viraj as God in the Form of Creation
Chapter 73 — More Description of Viraj, the God of Nature
Chapter 74 — The Cosmic Body of Viraj, Continued
Chapter 75 — Vasishta Describes a Final Dissolution of the World (2)
Chapter 76 — Vasishta Describes a Final Dissolution of the World (3)
Chapter 77 — Vasishta Describes a Final Dissolution of the World (4)
Chapter 78 — Vasishta Describes a Final Dissolution of the World (5)
Chapter 79 — After Dissolution, Vasishta Sees the Gods in Nirvana; Creation Linked to Desire
Chapter 80 — Vasishta Describes a Final Dissolution; Appearance of Adipurusha (Rudra, Shiva); Various Numbers of Voids
Chapter 81 — The Dance of Kali, Bhairavi
Chapter 82 — All Phenomena Are Void; Shiva
Chapter 83 — All Is Shiva
Chapter 84 — Description of Kali, Shiva and Shakti; All Ideas Are Real
Chapter 85 — Relation of Shiva and Kali
Chapter 86 — Vasishta Describes the Stone: Creation as Images in Unchanging God; All Things Are Repetitions of Themselves
Chapter 87 — Vasishta Describes the Infinity of the World Shown in His Material Body
Chapter 88 — Further Description of the Earth within Vasishta
Chapter 89 — Phenomena as Reproductions of Memories
Chapter 90 — Description of Water in Creation
Chapter 91 — Description of Fire in Creation; Astral Travel
Chapter 92 — Description of Air in Creation, the Universal Spirit
Chapter 93 — A Siddha Master Comes to Vasishta’s Aerial Home
Chapter 94 — Conclusion of Siddha Story; Vasishta Travels like a Pisacha; Description of Pisachas, Origin from Brahma
Chapter 95 — Description of Vasishta’s Bodies
Chapter 96 — Summation of the Story of the Stone; Nothing Exists or Does Not Exist
Chapter 97 — Different Beliefs Lead to the Same Unity; Examples of Self-realized
Chapter 98 — Praise of Good Society
Chapter 99 — Consciousness in Plants, Insects and Animals
Chapter 100 — Refutation of Atheism, Material Determination
Chapter 101 — Consciousness Is Self-Evident; No Reason to Fear Death
Chapter 102 — The Life of the Awakened; Feigning Wisdom
Chapter 103 — Consciousness Creates Both Knowledge and Ignorance; Praise for the Yoga Vasishta; — Impossibility of Causation or Materiality
Chapter 104 — The Process of Production Is Indescribable Except as a Dream
Chapter 105 — Waking and Sleeping Dreams Are Alike
Chapter 106 — Description of Intellectual Emptiness; the Impossibility of Material Creation
Chapter 107 — Formless Cannot Create Form; All Is Subjective (Ideal)
Chapter 108 — Story from Another World of a Besieged King (Vipaschit)
Chapter 109 — King Vipaschit Immolates Himself in Sacred Fire, Producing Four Copies
Chapter 110 — Description of Battle
Chapter 111 — The Four-fold King Lets Loose His Weapons and the Enemy Flees
Chapter 112 — Catalogue of Fleeing Foreign Foes
Chapter 113 — Combatants Exhausted; Description of the Ocean
Chapter 114 — The King’s Companions Praise Nature in India
Chapter 115 — The King’s Companions Continue to Praise Nature in India
Chapter 116 — The King’s Companions Continue: Praise of Sky and Air as Metaphors for God; a Beautiful Valley; Men Are Dirtier than Dogs; Nasty Crows and Pleasing Cuckoos
Chapter 117 — Description of a Lotus-Lake, Bees and Swans
Chapter 118 — Descriptions of Cranes, Herons, Deer & Travelers
Chapter 119 — A Lovelorn Traveler Talks to a Cloud and Is Almost Cremated
Chapter 120 — Description of Breezes & Winds, Flowers without Fragrance, Celestial Gardens, and other Various Objects on All Sides
Chapter 121 — King Vipaschit’s Companions Settle by the Ocean and Pray to Agni
Chapter 122 — King Vipaschit and His Companions Walk on the Ocean
Chapter 123 — King Vipaschit Wanders in Various Continents
Chapter 124 — Fourfold State of King Vipaschit
Chapter 125 — Each Body of the King Helps the Other; On Yogis; None but Yogis Can Know the Mind of Another; Indifference to Fate
Chapter 126 — Death and Further, Varied Consciousness of the Four Vipaschitas
Chapter 127 — Cosmology of the Universe
Chapter 128 — Endlessly Wandering in the Vacuum of Brahma; Everything We Perceive Is through God
Chapter 129 — Identical Self Develops Different Desires from Different Circumstances; Ignorance Is Identical with Brahma; Vipaschit the Stag Is Brought to the Court
Chapter 130 — Vipaschit the Stag Enters Fire, Is Restored and Becomes Bhasa
Chapter 131 — Vishwamitra Lectures on Endless Phenomena; — Bhasa Describes His Lives Searching for the End of Ignorance
Chapter 132 — Bhasa (King Vipaschit) Describes His Reincarnations and Experiences
Chapter 133 — Bhasa’s Story of the Wonderful Carcass
Chapter 134 — The Story of the Carcass Continued: Goddess and Demons Devour It; Celestials Lament the Loss
Chapter 135 — The Carcass Disappears and Used to Recreate the World
Chapter 136 — Story of the Asura Cursed to Become a Gnat: He Becomes a Deer and a Hunter
Chapter 137 — An Unnamed Sage Teaches the Hunter; Travel through Breath into a Student’s Body to Investigate the States of Waking, Sleeping, Dreaming and the Fourth State
Chapter 138 — The Unnamed Sage Describes Entering the Student’s Consciousness, Seeing Double, then Realizing All Is One; Vasishta Describes the Process of Brahman, Brahma and Creation
Chapter 139 — Vasishta Explains the Relationship between Mind and Prana; — the Unnamed Sage Describes Being Taken in by His Student’s Dream of Universal Flood
Chapter 140 — The Unnamed Sage Describes His Life as a Brahmin in the Body of Viraj; — His Escape through the Mouth of Viraj; — Finding His Own Life; then Trying to Find Where He Had Been
Chapter 141 — The Unnamed Sage Describes His Own Dream of Universal Fire
Chapter 142 — The Sage Continues: There Is No Karma; Pure-Born Souls; Religious Acts Useless
Chapter 143 — The Philosophy that All Is within God Is Compatible with All Beliefs, but It Is Wrong to Confuse God to Be like the World; Various Thoughts Create Various Worlds
Chapter 144 — The Individual Mind is a Microcosm of Brahman; Dreams and Creations; the Rules for the Dreams (Destiny) Are Inherent in Brahman
Chapter 145 — Concentration Expands Ideas; Descriptions of Body Fluids Affecting the Quality of Dreams
Chapter 146 — Brahman Does not Sleep, Dream or Awake
Chapter 147 — The Sage Awakens within His Student, Becomes Absorbed in His Own Memories, and Forgets Himself; Unless One Cultivates Knowledge, One Relapses into Forgetfulness and Ignorance
Chapter 148 — No One Can Say Whether Dreams Are Real or Unreal; Certainty Makes Things Real; There Is No Other Law of Dreaming
Chapter 149 — Many People Sharing Same Event; Only Brahman Is a Possible “Cause”
Chapter 150 — The Sage in the Dream Is the Sage Who Forgot Himself in the Dream: He Imagined Everything
Chapter 151 — The Dream Sage’s View of Inexistence
Chapter 152 — The Dream Sage Proposes Living with the Hunter’s Sage
Chapter 153 — Prediction of the Arrival of the Hunter; the Sage’s Self-Inquiry Results in the Conclusion that the One Soul Is the Cause of All
Chapter 154 — The Sage Describes His Own Life and Admonishes the Hunter to Practice Becoming Established in Knowledge
Chapter 155 — Agni Describes the Hunter’s Astonishment; the Sage Predicts the Hunter’s Tapas, Boon to Become Huge, and His Huge Body Falling on the Earth
Chapter 157 — The Minister Explains Creation and King Sindhu’s Tamasic Nature; the King Retires and Attains Nirvana
Chapter 158 — Agni Completes the Story of the Fall of the Hunter’s Huge Body
Chapter 159 — Vipaschit (Bhasa) Wanders; Indra Says He Has Still to Become a Deer; Indra Cursed by Durvasa; Bhasa Explains How All Possibility Lies within Brahman
Chapter 160 — Vasishta Explains that Ignorance is Limitless and Is Brahman; Description of Heaven and Hell; the Mind, an Aspect of the Body, Is Carried Forward in Rebirth
Chapter 161 — Vasishta Explains Dreams and Waking Are identical; Nirvana Is that Realization
Chapter 162 — Vasishta on Ignorance; the Folly of Worshipping Form
Chapter 163 — Means of Governing the Senses: Control the Mind; the Value of this Book
Chapter 164 — How the Wise and the Ignorant View the World
Chapter 165 — Play on the Similarity between Waking and Dreaming; Real or Unreal, Why Be Deluded?
Chapter 166 — Story of the Unnamable Crystal Rock
Chapter 167 — Words Cannot Describe Consciousness, Not Even Awake, Dream, Sleep or Turiya; Use Reasoning to Acquire Knowledge and Rest in Aum
Chapter 168 — Forms of a Tree; the Value of Investigating Our Dreams; the Origin of Dreams & Creations Are Random; the Carved Image; the Process of Creation
Chapter 169 — Description of the Calm and Tranquil Mind
Chapter 170 — The Friends of a Wise Man: Good Conduct and Mind
Chapter 171 — Meditation of Pure Emptiness: the Space between Thoughts
Chapter 172 — There Is no Memory; All Thoughts Are Memories
Chapter 173 — Brahman Is Both Conscious and Unconscious; Brahma Is the Mind, Viraj the Imagined Body
Chapter 174 — Nirvana Is Knowing God Is All and Nothing Else Exists; Only This Knowledge Yields Nirvana
Chapter 175 — Manifestation of All as Intellect’s Dream; the Value of the Yoga Vasishta
Chapter 176 — Brahma Gita, the Story of Brahma: the Cosmic Egg
Chapter 177 — Brahma Gita, There Can Be No Cause for Creation
Chapter 178 — How Spirit Can Perceive Physical; Story of Indu’s Ten Sons, the Aindavas (again); How Yogis Perceive Creation
Chapter 179 — Phenomena Are Points of Consciousness; Dreams Evidence Things Exist without Cause; — Each Soul Is Conscious of Multitudes within
Chapter 180 — The Story of Kundadanta and the Upside-down Ascetic
Chapter 181 — Kundadanta and the Ascetic Travel, Find a Hermit at What Was Gauri’s Ashram by the Kadamba Tree
Chapter 182 — The Kadamba Tree Hermit Describes the Tapas of the Eight Brothers, Their Wives’ Austerities, and Durvasa’s Curse
Chapter 183 — Blessing and Curse Argue before Brahma; — the Blessings Bear Fruit in the Minds of the Brahmin Brothers
Chapter 184 — The Kadamba Tree Hermit Explains to Kundadanta: — Diversity in the One, Fate Governs All, and No Original Memory
Chapter 185 — Kundadanta Completes His Story, Attains Liberation from Listening to Vasishta
Chapter 186 — Demonstration of All Nature as Brahma; Intellect Equally Everywhere in Varying Degrees of Individual Awareness; Curse or Blessing is All Ordained in the Beginning
Chapter 187 — Cosmology of the Living Creation; Ideas Beget Words Beget Objects
Chapter 188 — Creation Stories Are Fiction; How Yogis See Creation
Chapter 189 — The Creation of Brahma’s Thoughts
Chapter 190 — Rama’s Enlightenment: Short Answers to Many Questions
Chapter 191 — Solution of Great Question of Unity & Duality
Chapter 192 — Rama Realizes there Is No Error, No Ignorance
Chapter 193 — Rama Realizes that All Questions Become Meaningless upon God Realization
Chapter 194 — Rama Understands that Knowledge of the One Is Indescribable, Describes Realization
Chapter 195 — Vasishta Tests Rama: Why Didn’t God Create the World?
Chapter 196 — Realization Cannot Be Obtained from Scriptures; Story of the Wood-Cutters and the Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 197 — The Value of the Scriptures
Chapter 198 — Excellence of Equanimity, Humility and Universal Benevolence
Chapter 199 — Varieties of Ways in which Living Liberated Men Live in the World
Chapter 200 — Loud Applause for the Sage’s Speech
Chapter 201 — The Assembly Gathers again; Rama Describes His State; Vasishta Exhorts Him to Serve Vishwamitra and Dasharata
Chapter 202 — Rama Describes His State
Chapter 203 — Valmiki Describes the Noon Sun; Assembly Retires; — Dasharata’s Largesse; Sunrise; Assembly Reconvenes
Chapter 204 — All Forms, Dream or Awake, Are Manifestations of Intellect
Chapter 205 — There Can Be No Material Cause for Material Creation
Chapter 206 — The Story of King Prajnapti Asking How Immaterial Can Create Material — (the Great Buddhist Inquiry)
Chapter 207 — Vasishta Replies to the Questions (of the Buddhist): Non-Dualism in a Nutshell
Chapter 208 — Vasishta Explains that Everything is the Expression of an Idea in God, — including Laws and Secondary Causes
Chapter 209 — Judgment and Reincarnation; Any Idea Can Manifest
Chapter 210 — We See What We Believe; Karma; upon Realization, Phenomena Disappear
Chapter 211 — Seeing the Supernatural; All Is the Creation of the Viewer
Chapter 212 — On Ascertainment Of Truth
Chapter 213 — Rama’s Prior Learning under Vasishta
Chapter 214 — Description of the Great Celebration
Chapter 215 — Eulogy on This Work and the Mode of Its Recital
Chapter 216 — The Celestial Messenger’s Message of Liberation