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

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> On Feb 18, 2023, at 10:50 AM, 'S Jayanarayanan' via California - SF Bay Area Ramana Maharshi Satsang <virupaaksha at googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> (Continued from previous post)
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> CHAPTER VIII: WORSHIP OF THE SELF
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> 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).
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> 7. 'All that Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Indra
> and others always do is done by me the
> embodiment of Consciousness' — think in this
> manner.
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> 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.
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> 9. 'Everything is the One Brahman, pure
> Consciousness, the Self of all, indivisible and
> immutable' — reflect in this manner.
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> 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.
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> (To be Continued)
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