Category: Yoga Vasishta Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

Nothing whatever is born or dies anywhere at any time. It is Brahman (Self) alone appearing illusorily in the form of the world.

When pots, etc. are broken, the space within them becomes unlimited. So also when bodies cease to exist, the Self remains eternal and unattached.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Even the slightest thought immerses a man in sorrow; when devoid of all thoughts he enjoys imperishable bliss.

That perverted man who, even after knowing that worldly objects are deceptive, still thinks of them, is an ass, not a man.