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Part XIV: Liberation.1595
The knower and the ignorant are both equally subject each to his own
previous Karma;—the knower, all patience, knows no sorrow; the ignorant,
ever unsteady, continues to grieve. Of two men passing on the road, both
being equally fatigued and the road before them being equal, he that
knows treads on patiently to the end, the poor ignorant fool lingers behind
bemoaning his lot.
Panchadasi.
Bliss here attends the extremes of Intellect;—the highest which transcends
Intellect, and the lowest which is far below Intellect. The way between these
extremes is the way of worry and evil. A very thin partition divides ecstasy
from madness; for, in the former, the mind having lost all faith is quite clear
of every tinge of attachment.
Yogavasishtha.
In all acts whatever, whether of commission or omission, there is nothing,
save absence of attachment, to distinguish the fool from the man of wisdom.
Yogavasishtha.
I look with equal eye upon a poisonous snake or a garland of flowers; upon a
strong enemy or a kind friend; upon a costly jewel or a lump of earth; a bed
of flowers or a slab of stone; a group of beautiful women or a collection of
useless straw;—thus do I spend all my days in some holy solitude, all intent
on the blissful syllable.
Bhartrhari.
Neither action nor inaction are in me, ever one and without parts; how can
he act who is all one Self, a compact mass, all-full and all-filling like the Ether?
Vivekachudamani.