Category: Yoga Vasishta Quotes

Yoga Vasishta Quote 27 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 27. Neither disease nor poison nor adversity, nor any other thing in the world, causes more suffering to men than such stupidity engendered in their bodies.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 26 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 26. Oh Rama, it is indeed nobler to wander begging about the streets, an earthen bowl in hand, than to live a life steeped in ignorance.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 25 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 25. All this is the tranquil, One without beginning, middle or end, which cannot be said to be existent or non-existent. Know this and be happy.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 24 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 24. The Self is more extensive than space; it is pure, subtle, undecaying and auspicious. As such how could it be born and how can it die ?

Yoga Vasishta Quote 23 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 23. Nothing whatever is born or dies anywhere at any time. It is Brahman (Self) alone appearing illusorily in the form of the world.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 22 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 22. When pots, etc. are broken, the space within them becomes unlimited. So also when bodies cease to exist, the Self remains eternal and unattached.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 21 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 21. On the dissolution of the body, only the individual consciousness limited by the Heart ceases to Exist. People lament needlessly that the Self is dead.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 20 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 20. He who has understood well how to abandon all ideas of acceptance and rejection and who has realized the consciousness which is within the innermost heart – his life is illustrious.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 19 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 19. He is a happy man whose mind is inwardly cool and free from attachment and hatred and who looks upon this (world) like a mere spectator.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 18 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 18. Just as we experience the delusion of hundreds of year in a dream lasting an hour, so also we experience the sport of maya in our waking state.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 17 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 17. Even the slightest thought immerses a man in sorrow; when devoid of all thoughts he enjoys imperishable bliss.

Yoga Vasishta Quote 16 Yoga Vasishta Sara – Chapter 1 Sage Vasishta’s Guidance to Lord Rama Verse 16. That perverted man who, even after knowing that worldly objects are deceptive, still thinks of them, is an ass, not a man.