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Yoga Vashishtha 3.13.1–9
(This whole Creation is like a Seed that does not need soil, water, or fire to grow into vast groves of worlds)
श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच ।
परमे ब्रह्मणि स्फारे समे राम समस्थिते।
अनुत्पन्ननभस्तेजस्तमःसत्ता चिदात्मनि ॥ १ ॥
पूर्वं चेत्यत्वकलनं सतश्चेत्यांशचेतनात्।
उदेति चित्तकलनं चितिशक्तित्वचेतनात् ॥ २ ॥
ततो जीवत्वकलनं चेत्यसंयोगचेतनात्।
ततोऽस्य मायाकलनं चेत्यैकपरतावशात् ॥ ३ ॥
ततो बुद्धित्वकलनमहन्तापरिणामतः।
एतदेव मनस्तादिशब्दतन्मात्रकादिमत् ॥ ४॥
उच्छूनादन्यतन्मात्रभावनाद्भूतरूपिणः ।
अयमित्थं महागुल्मो जगदादिर्विलोक्यते ॥ ५ ॥
झटित्येवं क्रमेणेति स्वप्ने पुरमिवाकृतम् ।
महाकाशमहाटव्यामुद्भूयोद्भूय नश्यति ॥ ६ ॥
जगत्करञ्जकुञ्जानां बीजमेतदवापजम् ।
नापेक्षते किंचिदपि क्षितिवार्यनलादिकम् ॥ ७ ॥
एतच्चिदात्मकं पश्चात्किलोर्व्यादि करिष्यति ।
स्वं स्वप्नवित्पुरमिव चिन्मात्रात्मकमेव यत् ॥ ८ ॥
जगदाद्यङ्कुरं यत्र तत्रस्थमपि मुञ्चति।
जगतः पञ्चकं बीजं पञ्चकस्य चिदव्यया ॥ ९ ॥
Maharishi Vashishta said:
3.13.1: O Rama, when the vast and equal Supreme Brahm is firmly established, there is no birth at all of the light of the sky, nor of darkness, nor of any real existence in the Pure Consciousness that is the True Self.
3.13.2: First, the idea of being an object of thought arises from the Real Consciousness that thinks about objects. From the power of Pure Consciousness that thinks, the idea of mind comes up.
3.13.3: Then, the idea of being a living soul (jiva) arises from the joining of thought with objects of thought. After that, the idea of illusion (maya) comes because of focusing only on those objects.
3.13.4: Next, the idea of intellect comes from the change into the sense of "I". This same thing is called the mind, and it has the beginning forms of sound and other subtle elements.
3.13.5: From imagining other subtle elements beyond the empty space one, real forms of the five elements appear. In this way, the great bush-like beginning of the world is seen.
3.13.6: Suddenly, in this order, just like a city is made in a dream, it grows again and again in the great sky that is like a big forest, and then it dies away.
3.13.7: This is the Seed that gets the forests of the world, like karanja trees and groves. It does not need anything else at all, like earth, water, fire, or other things.
3.13.8: Later, this which is made of Pure Consciousness will make things like earth and others, just like a person who knows dreams makes his own dream city that is only made of Pure Consciousness.
3.13.9: Wherever the first sprout of the world is, even if it stays there, it lets go of the five-fold seed of the world. The unchanging Pure Consciousness is the Seed of that five-fold thing.
Summary of the Teachings:
In the first stage of creation described in these verses, everything begins in the Supreme Brahm, which is vast, equal, and Pure Consciousness. Nothing is born there—no light, darkness, or separate existence—because all is one in the true self. From this Pure State, the first idea appears: objects of thought come from Consciousness that thinks about them. Then, the mind arises from the thinking power of Pure Consciousness. This shows that the world starts not from matter, but from thought in the one reality.
Next, the sense of being a separate living soul (jiva) forms when thought joins with objects. Illusion (maya) follows because the mind focuses only on these objects, forgetting the One Source. The intellect then develops from the "I" feeling, and it becomes the mind with basic forms of sound and other subtle elements. This step-by-step process turns the One Consciousness into many seeming parts, like a single Seed growing into branches.
The five elements—starting from empty space and then others—appear when the mind imagines more subtle forms.
This makes the world look like a huge bush growing from nothing Real. Just as a dream city builds quickly in sleep and vanishes, the world rises and falls in the great Space of Consciousness, like a wild forest that comes and goes without warning.
This whole creation is like a Seed that does not need soil, water, or fire to grow into vast groves of worlds. It is self-made from Pure Consciousness alone. Later, this same Consciousness will create earth and other things, just as a dreamer builds a city in his mind without any outside help.
Finally, the world starts as a sprout from a five-fold seed (the elements and their subtle forms), but even if it stays in one place, Pure Unchanging Consciousness releases it. Consciousness is the true Seed behind everything. The teaching is that the world is only an idea in the mind, born from forgetting the one Brahm, and it can end when we see the Truth.
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