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Yoga Vasistha [English], Volume 1-4

by Vihari-Lala Mitra | 1891 | 1,121,132 words | ISBN-10: 8171101519

Hinduism Purana
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The English translation of the Yoga-vasistha: a Hindu philosophical and spiritual text written by sage Valmiki from an Advaita-vedanta perspective. The book contains epic narratives similar to puranas and chronologically precedes the Ramayana. The Yoga-vasistha is believed by some Hindus to answer all the questions that arise in the human mind, an...

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Chapter I - On unintentional acts and actions
Chapter II - Burning of the seeds of action for prevention of their vegetation
Chapter III - Disappearance of the phenomenals
Chapter IV - Annihilation of egoism
Chapter V - Narrative of a vidyadhara and his queries
Chapter VI - Description of disaffection and disgust to the world
Chapter VII - Description of the seed of the arbour of the world
Chapter VIII - Description of the temple of illusion
Chapter IX - On the development of intellect
Chapter X - Description of creation as an emanation from brahma
Chapter XI - On truth and right knowledge
Chapter XII - On the identity of the will
Chapter XIII - Anecdote of indra, and an account of the atomic world
Chapter XIV - Story of indrani
Chapter XV - The final extinction of the vidyadhara
Chapter XVI - Extinction of vidyadhara (continued)
Chapter XVII - Lecture on the annihilation of egoism
Chapter XVIII - Description of the universal sphere
Chapter XIX - Description of the form of virat
Chapter XX - Lecture on the extinction of the living soul
Chapter XXI - What constitutes true knowledge
Chapter XXII - The yoga conducive to happiness or the way to happiness
Chapter XXIII - Story of a pious brahman and his nirvana extinction
Chapter XXIV - Indifference or insouciance of manki to worldliness
Chapter XXV - Vasishtha's admonition to manki
Chapter XXVI - Manki's attainment of final extinction or nirvána.
Chapter XXVII - Sermon on the superior sort of yoga meditation.
Chapter XXVIII - Demonstrated conclusion of the doubtful truth.
Chapter XXIX - Sermon on holy meditation
Chapter XXX - Sermon on spirituality
Chapter XXXI - Sermon on the means of attaining the nirvana (extinction)
Chapter XXXII - Sermon inculcating the knowledge of truth
Chapter XXXIII - Sermon on the true sense of truth
Chapter XXXIV - Sermon on the practice of spiritual yoga
Chapter XXXV - Description of the supreme brahma
Chapter XXXVI - Sermon on the seed or source of the world
Chapter XXXVII - A lecture on the visibles and visible world
Chapter XXXVIII - Disquisition of nirvana—quietism
Chapter XXXIX - Vasishtha's gita or sermon on the sweet peace of mind
Chapter XL - On the quiescence of the soul
Chapter XLI - Repose in one's essential nature
Chapter XLII - A lecture on nirvana—extinction
Chapter XLIII - On the infinite extension of brahma
Chapter XLIV - Dangers to which the wandering (staglike) mind is exposed
Chapter XLV - Continuation of the story of the deerlike mind
Chapter XLVI - On abstract meditation and hypnotism
Chapter XLVII - The first step towards liberation
Chapter XLVIII - On the dignity of right discrimination
Chapter XLIX - Total stoicism and insouciance
Chapter L - Description of the seven kinds of living beings
Chapter LI - Admonition to arrive at the yoga of ultimate rest
Chapter LII - Description of the form and attributes of brahma
Chapter LIII - Explanation of nirvana—anaesthesia
Chapter LIV - Establishment of the undivided individuality of god
Chapter LV - The spiritual sense of the world
Chapter LVI - Story of the great stone, and vasishtha's meditation
Chapter LVII - On the knowledge of the known and unknown
Chapter LVIII - Proving the creation as divine attribute
Chapter LIX - Description of the network of the world
Chapter LX - The network of worlds (continued)
Chapter LXI - On the identity of the world with infinite vacuity
Chapter LXII - The unity of the intellect with the intellectual world
Chapter LXIII - Unity of the universe with the universal soul
Chapter LXIV - Sport of the heavenly nymphs
Chapter LXV - Life and conduct of the etherial nymph
Chapter LXVI - Description of the inside of the stony mansion of the world
Chapter LXVII - Praise of continued practice or the force of habit
Chapter LXVIII - The fallacy of the existence of the world
Chapter LXIX - Entrance into the cosmical stone of mundane egg
Chapter LXX - The words of the creator of worlds in the mundane stone
Chapter LXXI - Description of final dissolution
Chapter LXXII - Description of nirvana or final extinction
Chapter LXXIII - Description of the person of viraj—the god of nature
Chapter LXXIV - Description of the cosmical body of viraj (continued)
Chapter LXXV - Description of the final conflagration of the world
Chapter LXXVI - The stridor of pushkaravarta clouds
Chapter LXXVII - Description of the world overflooded by the rains
Chapter LXXVIII - Description of the universal ocean
Chapter LXXIX - Maintenance of inappetency or want of desire
Chapter LXXX - The world proved to be a delusion
Chapter LXXXI - Description of the last night of death or general doom
Chapter LXXXII - Description of the person of the god siva
Chapter LXXXIII - Sight of the mundane god
Chapter LXXXIV - Relation of siva and sakti
Chapter LXXXV - Relation of nature and soul
Chapter LXXXVI - The convertibility of the world to the supreme spirit
Chapter LXXXVII - The infinity of the world shown in the material body
Chapter LXXXVIII - Further description of the earth
Chapter LXXXIX - The phenomenal as the reproduction of reminiscence
Chapter XC - Description of the watery creation
Chapter XCI - Description of igneous, luminous and brilliant objects in nature
Chapter XCII - Description of the current air, as the universal spirit
Chapter XCIII - The advent and psalmody of a siddha
Chapter XCIV - Description of a pisacha
Chapter XCV - Description of the person of vasishtha
Chapter XCVI - Establishment of immortality
Chapter XCVII - On the rarity and retiredness of religious recluses
Chapter XCVIII - Praise of good society
Chapter XCIX - A discourse on esoteric or spiritual knowledge
Chapter C - Refutation of atheism
Chapter CI - A sermon on spirituality
Chapter CII - Exposition of buddhism and disproving of death
Chapter CIII - Proof of the unity of the deity
Chapter CIV - Establishment of the non-entity of the world
Chapter CV - Likeness of waking and sleeping dreams
Chapter CVI - Invalidation of the doctrine of cause and effect
Chapter CVII - The nature of ignorance or illusion of the mind
Chapter CVIII - Description of the knowledge and ignorance of the soul
Chapter CIX - Fighting with the invading armies at the gate of the city
Chapter CX - Battle of the wise princes, with the ignorant barbarian
Chapter CXI - The flight of the soldiers on all sides
Chapter CXII - Flight of the foreign foes
Chapter CXIII - Description of the ocean
Chapter CXIV - Description of the prospects all around
Chapter CXV - The same subject continued
Chapter CXVI - Narration of the speech of crow and cuckoo
Chapter CXVII - Description of the lotus-lake, bee and the swan
Chapter CXVIII - Description of deer, peacocks, cranes &c
Chapter CXIX - Lamentation of the lovelorn traveller
Chapter CXX - Description of various objects on all sides
Chapter CXXI - Exposition of the story of vipaschit
Chapter CXXII - The king's survey of the sea, and his locomotion on it
Chapter CXXIII - The king's excursions on all sides
Chapter CXXIV - Quadripartite state of the king vipaschit
Chapter CXXV - On the living liberation of the prince
Chapter CXXVI - Resuscitation and conduct of the vipaschitas
Chapter CXXVII - Cosmology of the universe
Chapter CXXVIII - The vacuum of brahma and the sight of the world therein
Chapter CXXIX - Vipaschit's becoming a stag
Chapter CXXX - Entering of the stag into the fire
Chapter CXXXI - Bhasa's account of the worlds
Chapter CXXXII - Bhasa's relation of the transmigrations of his soul
Chapter CXXXIII - Story of the wonderful carcass
Chapter CXXXIV - The story of the carcass continued
Chapter CXXXV - Disappearance of the carcass
Chapter CXXXVI - Story of the gnat and hunter
Chapter CXXXVII - Description of the states of waking, sleeping and dreaming
Chapter CXXXVIII - The pervasion of the mind throughout the universe
Chapter CXXXIX - Description of the dissolution of the world
Chapter CXL - Workings of imagination
Chapter CXLI - Description of the termination of a kalpa-period
Chapter CXLII - Ascertainment of karma or acts of men
Chapter CXLIII - Ascertainment of nirvana or ultimate extinction
Chapter CXLIV - Investigation into the nature & vicissitudes of things
Chapter CXLV - Description of the waking, dreaming and sleeping states
Chapter CXLVI - Disquisition of sound sleep
Chapter CXLVII - The phenomenon and perspection of dreams
Chapter CXLVIII - Investigation into the nature of dreams
Chapter CXLIX - Investigation into the original cause
Chapter CL - Transcendental admonitions
Chapter CLI - View of inexistence
Chapter CLII - The sage's discourse at night
Chapter CLIII - One soul is the cause of all
Chapter CLIV - Relation of past events
Chapter CLV - Relation of future fortune
Chapter CLVI - Expostulation of sindhu by his minister
Chapter CLVII - The ultimate extinction or nirvana of sindhu
Chapter CLVIII - Fall of the huge body of the hunter
Chapter CLIX - Wandering of vipaschit
Chapter CLX - Description of heaven and hell
Chapter CLXI - Explanation of nirvana
Chapter CLXII - Annihilation of ignorance
Chapter CLXIII - Means and manner of governing the senses
Chapter CLXIV - Unity of the divinity and the mundane world
Chapter CLXV - On the similarity of waking and dreaming
Chapter CLXVI - On the attributes of the divine spirit
Chapter CLXVII - Absence of the threefold states
Chapter CLXVIII - Story of the hewn statue or carved image
Chapter CLXIX - Description of the calm and tranquil mind
Chapter CLXX - On the conduct of the sapient man
Chapter CLXXI - Meditation of pure vacuum
Chapter CLXXII - Establishment of the identity of the deity and the world
Chapter CLXXIII - Brahma gita or a lecture on spirituality
Chapter CLXXIV - Brahma gita: or a lecture on nirvana
Chapter CLXXV - Paramartha gita
Chapter CLXXVI - Brahma gita: account of brahmanda or mundane system
Chapter CLXXVII - Brahma-gita: description of divine nature
Chapter CLXXVIII - Brahma-gita: narrative of aindava
Chapter CLXXIX - The doctrine of pantheism or the one as all
Chapter CLXXX - Brahma gita: the story on austere devotee
Chapter CLXXXI - Brahma-gita continued
Chapter CLXXXII - Brahma gita: sovereignty of the seven continents
Chapter CLXXXIII - Description of the seven continents
Chapter CLXXXIV - A lecture on the all comprehensiveness of the soul
Chapter CLXXXV - Admonition to and clairvoyance of kundadanta
Chapter CLXXXVI - Demonstration of all nature (and thing) as brahma himself
Chapter CLXXXVII - Of the living creation
Chapter CLXXXVIII - Description of the living soul
Chapter CLXXXIX - On the unity of the divine spirit
Chapter CXC - Ecstasis or inertness of rama
Chapter CXCI - Solution of the great question of unity and duality
Chapter CXCII - On the attainment of spiritual anaesthesia
Chapter CXCIII - Mental torpor or tranquillity
Chapter CXCIV - Rama's rest in nirvana insensibility
Chapter CXCV - Lecture on the enlightenment of understanding
Chapter CXCVI - Story of a wood-cutter and his gem
Chapter CXCVII - On the excellence of learning
Chapter CXCVIII - Excellence of Universal Toleration
Chapter CXCIX - State of living liberated man
Chapter CC - The loud applause of the court on the sage's speech
Chapter CCI - Explanation of rest and repose in ultimate and perfect bliss
Chapter CCII - Recumbence of the assembly to their hypnotic rest
Chapter CCIII - Description of nirvana or self extinction in divine meditation
Chapter CCIV - Identity of abstract intellectuality and vacuity
Chapter CCV - Refutation of the doctrine of the causality of creation
Chapter CCVI - The great inquiry, or questions of the buddhist
Chapter CCVII - Replies to the aforesaid queries (of the buddhist)
Chapter CCVIII - Solution of the great question
Chapter CCIX - On the consciousness
Chapter CCX - Refutation of the conception of a duality in unity
Chapter CCXI - Lecture on transcendent truth
Chapter CCXII - On ascertainment of truth
Chapter CCXIII - Narration of rama's prior pupilage under vasishtha
Chapter CCXIV - Description of the great jubilee of the assembly
Chapter CCXV - Eulogy on this work and the mode of its recital
Chapter CCXVI - Conclusion of the celestial messenger's message of liberation
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