Yog vashist

 

expand the mind with the mind. 

Remain at peace within yourself, 

seeing the one infinite being in all.

 remain firm in your knowledge of the truth 

engage in appropriate action in a life of

effortless experiencing of the natural course of events.

intellectual knowledge is not knowledge! 

Unattachment to wife, son and house, 

equanimity in pleasure and pain, 

love of solitude, 

being firmly established in self-knowledge — 

this is knowledge, all else is ignorance! 

Only when the egosense is thinned out does this self- knowledge arise. 

uprooted by 

self-effort 

resolutely turning away from pursuit of pleasure

resolute breaking down of prison-house of shame (false dignity), etc. 

abandon all this and remain firm, the egosense will vanish

Remain at peace within 

mind silenced, 

free from desires and jealousy, 

do appropriate action in circumstances as they arose.

subtle nature of the world order, O Rama*. Some things appear in abundance and once again they manifest in abundance. Others are born now, having never been before; and having been now they are not born again. Others which have been before reappear in the same form now. It is like the waves on the ocean: there are similar ones and there are dissimilar ones.

There are three types of attainable goals in this world, *: 

desirable, detestable and ignorable. 

What is desirable is sought with great effort; 

what is detestable is abandoned; 

between these two is that towards which one is indifferent. 

Normally, one regards that as desirable which promotes happiness, 

its opposite is considered undesirable and one is indifferent to those which bring neither happiness or unhappiness. 

However, in the case of the enlightened ones these categories do not exist. For they look upon everything as a mere play and hence they are utterly indifferent to everything seen or unseen.