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Yoga Vashishtha 3.17.31–40
(Nothing ever truly comes, goes, ages, or dies)
श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच ।
पपाताथ महारम्भा सा तां नरपतेः सभाम् ।
व्योमात्मिका व्योममयीं मिहिकेवाम्बराटवीम् ॥ ३१ ॥
भ्रमन्तीं तत्र तामग्रे ददृशुस्ते न केचन।
संकल्पमात्ररचितां पुरुषाः कामिनीमिव ॥ ३२ ॥
तथा ते तां न ददृशुः संचरन्तीं पुरोगताम् ।
अन्यसंकल्परचितामन्येन नगरीं यथा ॥ ३३ ॥
प्राक्तनानेव तान्सर्वान्स्वान्ददर्श सभागतान् ।
भूभृतेव सुसंप्रज्ञान्नगरान्नगरान्तरम् ॥ ३४ ॥
तद्देशांस्तत्समाचारांस्तथा तानेव बालकान् ।
ता एव बालवनितास्तांस्तानेव च मन्त्रिणः ॥ ३५ ॥
तानेव भूमिपालांश्च तांस्तानेव च पण्डितान् ।
तानेव नर्मसचिवान्भृत्यांस्तानेव तादृशान् ॥ ३६ ॥
अथान्यानप्यपूर्वांश्च पण्डितान्सुहृदस्तथा ।
व्यवहारांस्तथान्यांश्च पौरानन्यांस्तथैव च ॥ ३७ ॥
मध्याह्नकाले दिवसे घनदावाकुला दिशः ।
अन्तरिक्षं सचन्द्रार्कं साम्भोदपवनध्वनि ॥ ३८ ॥
महीरुहनदीशैलपुरपत्तनमण्डितम् ।
नानानगरविन्यास जङ्गलग्रामसंकुलम् ॥ ३९ ॥
द्विरष्टवर्षं भूपालं प्राक्तन्या जरसोज्झितम् ।
प्राक्तनीं जनतां सर्वां समस्तान्ग्रामवासिनः ॥ ४० ॥
Maharishi Vashishta continued:
3.17.31
Then that great city, made only of sky and emptiness, suddenly fell into the king’s assembly hall, like a cloud falling into a forest of the sky.
3.17.32
While it was whirling there, not a single person in the hall could see it, just as men cannot see a woman who exists only in someone else’s imagination.
3.17.33
In the same way, they did not see the city even though it was moving right in front of them, just as people made by one imagination cannot see a city created by another imagination.
3.17.34
The city saw all the same people who had been there before, exactly as they were, just as a King with full Awareness sees another city exactly like the one he left.
3.17.35
It saw the same places, the same customs, the same children, the same young women, and the same ministers.
3.17.36
The same kings, the same learned men, the same witty companions, and the same servants, all exactly as before.
3.17.37
Then it also saw other scholars who had never existed before, other friends, other daily activities, and other citizens—all completely new.
3.17.38
At noon the sky was covered with thick clouds, the directions were dark, the middle sky had the moon and sun, and the wind roared along with the clouds.
3.17.39
The earth was decorated with trees, rivers, mountains, cities, and towns; it was filled with many different arrangements of cities, forests, and villages.
3.17.40
There was an eighty-year-old King freed from the old age of the previous creation, and all the same people from before, including the villagers—everyone exactly as they had been.
Summary of the Teachings:
These verses describe the miraculous appearance of a complete, vast, sky-born city (Pure Consciousness) inside the tiny assembly hall of King Padma, showing that infinite worlds can exist within the infinite space of the mind.
Nothing truly “travels” from one place to another; the city appears because the people in the hall and the beings in the city share the same mental wave (vasana), yet people bound to their own limited imagination cannot see a world created by another imagination. This proves that perception depends entirely on the mind.
The city that appears is both exactly the same as the previous creation (same people, same places, same kings) and completely new (new scholars, new friends, new activities). This teaches that every moment the world is freshly created by the mind, yet it feels continuous because of memory and habit.
Even time, weather, sun, moon, mountains, rivers, villages—everything—arises anew in each instant within Pure Consciousness. There is no fixed “old” world that continues; every appearance is a fresh dream of the one Infinite Awareness.
The deepest teaching is that birth, death, old age, youth, past, present, and future are all mere thoughts. When the same mind-wave rises again, the same-looking world appears; when a new mind-wave rises, a new world appears. All is only the play of Consciousness —nothing ever truly comes, goes, ages, or dies.
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