Yoga Vasishta - Post 36

Only one who has arrived at wisdom can ascend to the ethereal realms, O Lila, not others. This Lila does not possess such wisdom; hence, she only fancied that she had reached the city where her husband dwelt.

 

The enlightened Lila said:

 

Let that be as you say, O Goddess. But, please tell me: how did the objects acquire their characteristics—like heat in fire, coolness in ice, solidity of earth? How did  the world order (niyati) first arise, as also birth and death?

 

Sarasvati said:

 

Dear one, during the cosmic dissolution, the entire universe having disappeared, only the infinite Brahman remains in peace. This infinite being of the nature of  consciousness feels 'I am' and then 'I am an atom of light'. 

 

Thus it experiences the truth of that statement within itself. It also fancies the existence within itself of the  diverse creatures: and since its nature is pure and absolute consciousness, that fanciful creation appears to be a real creation, with objects of diverse characteristics in  strict accord with the fancy of the infinite consciousness.

 

Whatever, wherever and however was conceived or fancied by the infinite consciousness during that first creation, all that has remained there and in that manner and  with those characteristics even now. Thus was a definite order brought into being here.

 

In fact, this order is inherent in infinite consciousness. All these objects and their characteristics were potentially present in it even during the cosmic dissolution: into  what else could they dissolve? 

 

Moreover, how can something become nothing? Gold that appears as bracelet cannot become formless entirely.

 

Thus, although all the elements of this creation are utter emptiness, yet whatever element was conceived of in the beginning with whatever characteristic, such order has  persisted until now. All this is only from the relative point of view: for, the universe has not been created at all, and whatever is, is the infinite consciousness and naught  else. It is the nature of appearance to appear to be real, even though it is unreal.

 

Such is the order (niyati) in the universe, that nothing until now has been able to alter it. It was the infinite consciousness itself that thought of all these elements within itself and it experienced them within itself, and that experience appears to have materialised. 

 

Continued.. 

 

Love

 

 

Yoga Vasishta - Post 35

Vasishta continued:

O Rama, the second Lila who had obtain husband the king was. The girl thereupon flew away with her mother.

 

First, they passed through the region of the clouds, then they passed through the region of air. Beyond that they went through the orbit of the sun into the starry heaven. 

 

They proceeded still further to the realms of Brahma the creator, Vishnu, and Siva, and after all that into the summit of the universe. They were able to do all this even as the coolness of ice is able to radiate from the ice­jar without breaking it. Of course, Lila who had an ethereal body composed of materialised thought, experienced all this within herself.

 

Passing beyond even this universe, Lila crossed over the oceans and other elements that envelop this universe, and entered into the infinite consciousness. In that infinite consciousness there are countless universes which do not know of one another's existence.

 

Lila entered one of those universes in which lay the body of king Padma covered with a heap of flowers. She again passed through the regions of the gods (Brahma, etc.), entered the city and the palace in which the body lay.

 

But, alas, when she looked around she could not see her daughter—who had disappeared mysteriously. 

 

She recognized the king as her husband and thought that having died a warrior's glorious death on the battlefield he had ascended to the hero's heaven. She thought "By the grace of Sarasvati, I have physically reached this place. I am the most blessed among persons." She began to fan the king's body.

 

She could not go in her own physical body to the new realm because light cannot co­exist with darkness, and as long as there is in oneself the blind notion of ignorance, wisdom does not arise. When the wisdom concerning one's ethereal body arises, the physical body ceases to be recognized as true. 

 

This is the fruit of the boon that I granted her. The recipient of the boon thinks, "Just as you have made me think by your boon, so I am". Therefore, she thinks she has reached her husband's abode in her physical body.

 

One may ignorantly see a snake in the rope; but the rope cannot behave like a snake.

 

Love.

 

Yoga Vasishta - Post 34

Even as the king Viduratha entered the ranks of the enemy, there was an intense tut­tut sound of intense crossfire. As the missiles collided, there were sounds like khut­khut, tuk­tuk, jhun­jhun.

 

THE SECOND LILA asked Sarasvati:

 

O Goddess, please tell me, why is it that though we are blessed by you, my husband cannot win the battle?

 

SARASVATI replied:

 

No doubt, I was adored by king Viduratha for a considerable time; but he did not pray for victory in battle. Being the consciousness that dwells in the understanding of every person, I bestow upon that person that which he seeks. Whatever it be that a person asks of me, I bestow upon him that fruit: it is but natural that fire gives you heat. He had asked for liberation; and he shall attain liberation.

On the other hand, the king of Sindhu worshipped me, and prayed for victory in battle. Hence, the king Viduratha will be slain in battle, and he will rejoin you both and in course of time will attain liberation. This king of Sindhu will win the war and will rule the country as the victorious monarch.

 

VASISTHA continued:

 

Both the kings lost their vehicles, and they continued to fight standing on the ground. As Viduratha was about to ascend a new one he was cut down by the king of  Sindhu. Viduratha's body was soon brought to the palace which the pursuing enemy could not enter on account of Sarasvati's presence.

 

VASISTHA  continued:

 

Seeing Viduratha fall, the second Lila fell down unconscious. The first Lila said to Sarasvati: ''O Goddess, see, this my husband is about to give up the ghost."

 

SARASVATI said:

 

Dear one, all this terrible war, this destruction and death, are as real as a dream; for there is neither a kingdom nor the earth. All this took place in the house of the holy man Vasistha on top of the hill. This palace and this battlefield and all the rest of it is nowhere but the inner apartments of your own palace. 

 

In fact, the entire universe is there. For, within the house of the holy man is the world of the king Padma; and within the palace of that king in that world is all that you have seen here. All this is mere fancy, hallucination. What is, is the sole reality—which is neither created nor destroyed. 

It is that infinite consciousness that is perceived by the ignorant as the Universe Just as a whole city exists within the dreamer, the three worlds exist in a small atom; surely, there are atoms in those worlds, and each one of those atoms also contains the three worlds.

 

The other Lila who fell down unconscious has already reached that world in which your husband Padma's body is lying.

 

LILA asked:

 

O Goddess, tell me: how did she go there already, and what are the people there telling her?

 

SARASVATI replied: Just as both of you are the fancied objects of the king, even so the king himself and I are dream­ objects. One who knows this gives up looking for 'objects of perception'. In the infinite consciousness we have created each other in our fancy. 

 

The other youthful Lila was indeed yourself. She  worshipped me and prayed that she would never be widowed: hence, before the king Viduratha died she left this place. Dear one, you are all individualised cosmic consciousness, but I am the cosmic consciousness: and  I make all these things happen.

 

Continued....

 

Love.

 

 

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Cultivate The Conscious Of The One

 

 

Krishna is named Yogeeshwara in the Geetha. What does that mean? Yoga is defined by Pathanjali as the nirodha (control) of the vritthis (agitations) of the chiththa (mind-stuff). If the mind is stilled and free from waves produced by the wind of desire, then he becomes a Yogi and the Lord is the highest Yogi, for He is the ocean that is unaffected by the waves which agitate the surface. Krishna danced on the hood of the serpent Kaliya and forced it to vomit its poison, it is said. This is only another way of saying that he forced sensual desires to divest themselves of pernicious effects. Yoga of this type is the best means of attaining the Yogeeshwara (the Lord ofyogis); not breath control, but sense control is the prescription. Transcend anekathwa bhava (the consciousness of the many) and cultivate ekathwa bhava (the consciousness of the One), that will end strife, grief, pain and pride. See all as but expressions of the same God, as appearances on the same screen, as bulbs lit by the same current, though of manifold colours and wattage.

 

Feel that you and they are able to talk and walk, think and act because of the God within. Differences that strike you while you cast your eyes are illusory; you have not yet developed the vision that makes you apprehend the unity which is the truth of all the seeming diversity,  that is all! The fault is in you, not the world. The world is One; but, each takes it to mean what pleases him most! The world is One, but, each sees it from his own angle and so, it appears as if it has multiple faces.

 

 

Divine Discourse – 10th May, 1969

Source : SSS, Vol 9 Disc. 6