Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Such is the true nature of this universe. It manifests
itself out of Atma-Jnana, like the misconception of
serpent arising in a rope and is no other. To those
who contemplate upon the rays of the sun as no
other than the sun itself, the sun alone exists. This
is the much-longed-for Nirvikalpa state. But if the
sun and its rays are considered as two separate
ones, then there will appear a diversity between
the sun and its rays- Having given up all
heterogeneities, may you, oh Rama, be in that
direct spiritual experience wherein is not the
universe.
Like the wind agitating the waters, Brahman
produces the fluctuating motion of Sankalpa. As
soon as Sankalpa was set afloat, it expanded itself
and differentiated itself into this form-world, when
it became the Manas which began to see itself
through itself. Therefore know this universe to be
nothing but replete with Sankalpa. This universe is
neither real nor unreal; but it manifests itself like
dream creations. Know that the seer, hearer,
speaker, feeler, smeller, walker and doer are no
new creations; but are the one Truth. All acts of
685