Hari Om. I am reading Yoga Vasishta and will try to write here the key points and my understanding. The intention is to read and contemplate ('mananam' ) on the deeper meanings of the lines and absorb it into us as part of our daily life. So only a few lines are read & written here at a time.
Yoga Vasishta, written by Sage Valmiki, is the spiritual teaching to Lord Rama by his Guru Vasishta. The main theme of the teaching is that our association and identification with the world and external objects is a dream that the soul must awake from. It will then realize its true nature. The key step for this is to destroy our ego or I-ness! Extinction of all psychological conditioning constitutes liberation or Moksha. When all the desires are destroyed and the mind is kept controlled and subdued, we reach a state of bliss and freedom with no psychological restrictions. This is done by controlling the mind and the resulting thoughts that keeps longing for & on external objects. An example in modern day world is our usage of a car. We use our car (or any automobile) specifically for a journey only. Before and after the journey, the car is kept shut off and in the garage. We do not want use the car to live or as a dining place or bedroom! We do not want our mind to dwell on the car all the time and be addicted to it! (some folks are like that and keep cleaning and updating their car all the time!). Similarly, realize that you are different from your mind or body. You are the subject - the Atman or the supreme power. The BMI (body, mind, intellect) are all objects separate from you. Use your mind ONLY as and when needed. At other times, END the mind and be in the pure awareness of the supreme Self or Divine! When this illusory I-ness or ego perishes, the end of the thoughts to the Maya is called Moksha. Hari Om.
Yoga Vasishta, written by Sage Valmiki, is the spiritual teaching to Lord Rama by his Guru Vasishta. The main theme of the teaching is that our association and identification with the world and external objects is a dream that the soul must awake from. It will then realize its true nature. The key step for this is to destroy our ego or I-ness! Extinction of all psychological conditioning constitutes liberation or Moksha. When all the desires are destroyed and the mind is kept controlled and subdued, we reach a state of bliss and freedom with no psychological restrictions. This is done by controlling the mind and the resulting thoughts that keeps longing for & on external objects. An example in modern day world is our usage of a car. We use our car (or any automobile) specifically for a journey only. Before and after the journey, the car is kept shut off and in the garage. We do not want use the car to live or as a dining place or bedroom! We do not want our mind to dwell on the car all the time and be addicted to it! (some folks are like that and keep cleaning and updating their car all the time!). Similarly, realize that you are different from your mind or body. You are the subject - the Atman or the supreme power. The BMI (body, mind, intellect) are all objects separate from you. Use your mind ONLY as and when needed. At other times, END the mind and be in the pure awareness of the supreme Self or Divine! When this illusory I-ness or ego perishes, the end of the thoughts to the Maya is called Moksha. Hari Om.
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