[Chaturamnaya] Yoga Vasishtha Sara - The Essence of the Yoga Vasishtha - CHAPTER VIII (WORSHIP OF THE SELF)

[S Jayanarayanan]

(Continued from previous post)
 
 
CHAPTER VIII: WORSHIP OF THE SELF
 
1. If you separate yourself from the body
and abide at ease in Consciousness you will
become one (the sole Reality), everything
else appearing (insignificant) like grass.
 
2. After knowing that by which you know
this (world) turn the mind inward and then
you will see clearly (realize) the effulgence of
the Self.
 
3. O Raghava, that by which you recognize
sound, taste, form and smell know that as
your Self, the Supreme Brahman, the Lord of
lords.
 
4. O Raghava, that in which beings vibrate,
that which creates them, know that Self
to be your real Self.
 
5. After rejecting, through reasoning, all
that can be known as 'non-truth' what remains
as pure Consciousness — regard as your real
Self.
 
6. Knowledge is not separate from you
and that which is known is not separate from
knowledge. Hence there is nothing other than
the Self, nothing separate (from it).
 
7. 'All that Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Indra
and others always do is done by me the
embodiment of Consciousness' — think in this
manner.
 
8. 'I am the whole universe. I am the
undecaying Supreme Self. There is neither
past nor future apart from me' — reflect in
this manner.
 
9. 'Everything is the One Brahman, pure
Consciousness, the Self of all, indivisible and
immutable' — reflect in this manner.
 
10. 'There is neither I nor any other
thing. Only Brahman exists always full of
bliss everywhere.' Meditate on this calmly.
 
11. The sense of perceiver and perceived
is common to all embodied beings, but the
Yogi worships the One Self.
 
 
(To be Continued)