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Part XIV: Liberation.1597
Has it set? is it broken? is it shattered to pieces? is it dissolved? is it pounded
to dust? is it swallowed up? is it suddenly gone to decay?—the mind being
turned inward, I do not find even a trace of the universe in the free depths
of myself, the indescribable ocean of the bliss of Self-realization.
Svarajyasiddhi.
All latent desire having died out, he looks upon the world as all destroyed;
as some unreal nightmare; as a castle-in-the-air; or even as a painting which
is nearly washed off under a heavy downpour of rain.
Yogavasishtha.
Though ever moving about in the world of experience, the whole of it exists
not for him;—all-pervading ether-like consciousness alone subsists. Such a
one is called Liberated. The expression of his countenance neither flushes
nor fades under pleasure or pain; he stands unmoved whatever may come
or go. Though acting after every feeling, such as love, hate, fear and the
like, he who stands unaffected within, is said to be the liberated while yet
in this life. He whom the world finds no cause to fear, and who is never
afraid of the world, ever beyond joy, and jealousy, and fear, is said to be the
real Liberated One. With the woes of this world laid entirely, at rest he who,
though full of all learning and art, is yet without any; who, though with mind
is without it, is said to be the real Liberated One.
Yogavasishtha.
Trembling and other signs of fear subside, only by degrees, even after
knowledge of the snake as nothing but a harmless piece of rope; the same
rope met with in dim light, even after such knowledge, may yet become
the same terrible snake it once was. Thus previous Karma comes gradually
to end by fruition through experience and not all at once by any obstinate
remedy; nay, it is even possible for the immortal one to temporarily feel
his mortality in moments of such fruition. This, however, is no flaw in the