Yoga Vasishta - Post 7

Story of leela Continued...

 

 “I want to see my husband,” the queen said.

 

When Lila said she wanted to see her husband, she did not mean that she wanted to see the old man. She wanted to see that form which was dead in a room in a different place.

 

It so happened that the old king who had just died in battle also had a queen, and by chance her name was also Lila. This is a mystery which the Yoga Vasishtha does not explain.

 

Then Saraswati, the goddess, said, “Here is your husband. He has a queen like you, and she resembles you. Her name is Lila.”

 

“Oh! I did not expect that my husband would have another queen. I am the queen,” Lila said.

 

Saraswati replied, “In the relative cosmos, you cannot say ‘mine’. There is no ‘mine’, and neither you nor anybody else has any interconnection. This interconnection is a false operation of a dancing process of space and time, and you are confused because you are attached to a particular relationship of space and time.”

 

“Now, where am I finally?” said the queen. “I want my husband.”

 

Immediately Saraswati’s grace operated. She allowed the soul of the old king to enter the corpse which Lila had covered with a cloth. The king got up, as if from a long dream. He could not understand that he was ruling an empire in a different space-time, and that he had waged a war and had died there. Nothing was known to him. He simply shook himself and woke up.

 

Saraswati, for whatever reason, also brought the second Lila back to the very room where the king had died and re-entered his corpse, so now he had two queens.

 

Lila could not understand this. “I don’t understand anything. Don’t make me mad!”

 

“No, you will not be mad, by my grace. I am only trying to enlighten you,” Saraswati said.

 

Then King Padma ruled the kingdom once again, with two queens.

 

“I will tell you something more,” said the goddess.

 

“Don’t tell me anything more,” Lila said. “It is enough for me!”

 

“No, I want to illumine you properly. The entire kingdom of thousands of miles that your husband was ruling was actually inside the room of that Brahmin couple who died.”

 

Lila said, “The room was so small, approximately ten feet by twelve feet in that kingdom, whereas my husband’s kingdom was thousands of miles.”

 

“Space-time operations are mysterious. They can delude you into the belief of anything whatsoever, and you will not know what is really happening. The large kingdom of Padma was actually inside the room of the Brahmin couple, which was so small.”

 

Saraswati continued. “Now I shall go further. The large kingdom of the old king is inside this room where your husband died.”

 

“Sufficient,” Lila said. “I don’t want to hear anything more!”

 

The goddess said, “I am telling you all this so that you can understand that nothing whatsoever is existing independently. Neither are you existing, nor your husband, nor the world. Nothing is there. You cannot say what is there. Anything can be anywhere at any time, and in any form. Yesterday, today, tomorrow—there is no meaning in these things. 

A great chaos of perception has been presented before you by space-time. Because of this mysterious, unexpected, shocking operation of space-time, you are unable to know that you are also involved in it. If you are involved in the world of space and time, you cannot make any reference to the world of space and time because that reference will apply to you also. 

No one can say, ‘I am here’ or ‘that is there’ because this ‘I’ is vitally connected to the existence of ‘that’, and ‘that’ is vitally connected to the existence of ‘this’. What do you understand from this? Everything is interrelated in such a way that nothing can exist independently. Everything exists by the operation of all the things that are taking place in the universe, so that every individual, so-called, is a universal unit.”

 

Love.