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Part XIV: Liberation.1601<br />

embodiment or disembodiment make in the Liberated? Whether in<br />

tempestuous waves or in placid calm, the sameness of Ocean undergoes no<br />

change.<br />

Yogavasishtha.<br />

Who has no desire, who is beyond desire, who has all desires fulfilled in the<br />

Supreme, who has Self as the object of all and every desire;—his breath<br />

rises not beyond him; being Self, he becomes Self, in truth.<br />

Brhadaranyakopanishad.<br />

I have no Illusion for my consort; no serpent for my couch; no discuss for my<br />

weapon; no round of incarnations to go through, nor have I the anxiety of<br />

protecting the world, still I am the Lord, to all intent and purpose, in my Self.<br />

Svarajyasiddhi.<br />

The Absolute neither rises nor sets, nay he is never laid at rest. He is not being<br />

nor non-being, neither near nor distant, neither I nor thou. He shines as the<br />

sun, He protects the three worlds appearing as Vishnu, As Sira He destroys<br />

all. He acts the creator in the form of the lotus-born Brahma. Whatever is,<br />

whatever has been, whatever shall be,—every object in any one of the three<br />

forms of Time—He is that; He is everything. Oh best of knowers! when He<br />

takes on the form of the three worlds and all they contain, I believe Him to<br />

have gone through the act of creation. If verily the three worlds do exist, let<br />

him by all means become those words, for in Him the “Three worlds” are, in<br />

truth, empty of all real content whatever—mere words are they?<br />

Yogavasishtha.<br />

They divert themselves in the native bliss of Self-experience, they enjoy<br />

themselves in any manner with perfect freedom. The many-sided,<br />

wonderful course the Liberated pursue, on the inscrutable Path, ever free<br />

of attachment, knowing no limit, always tending to the good of the universe,

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