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Yoga Vashishtha 3.54.1–14
(Here the Goddess is teaching that only people who truly know the Real Nature of things or who follow the Highest dharma can reach Higher, transcendental worlds even while living in this world)
श्रीदेव्युवाच ।
तस्माद्ये वेद्यवेत्तारो ये वा धर्मं परं श्रिताः।
आतिवाहिकलोकांस्ते प्राप्नुवन्तीह नेतरे ॥ १॥
आधिभौतिकदेहत्वं मिथ्याभ्रममयात्मकम्।
कथं सत्ये स्थितिं याति च्छायास्ते कथमातपे ॥ २॥
लीला विदितवेद्या नो परमं धर्ममाश्रिता।
केवलं तेन सा भर्तुः कल्पितं नगरं गता ॥ ३॥
प्रबुद्धलीलोवाच ।
एवमेषा प्रयाताऽस्तु भर्ता पश्य ममाम्बिके।
प्रवृत्तः प्राणसंत्यागे कर्तव्यं किमिहाधुना ॥ ४॥
भावाभावेषु भावानां कथं नियतिरागता।
कथं भूयोऽप्यनियतिर्मृतिजन्मादिसूचिता ॥ ५॥
कथं स्वभावसंसिद्धिः कथं सत्ता पदार्थगा।
कथमग्न्यादिपूष्णत्वं पृथ्व्यादौ स्थिरता कथम् ॥ ६॥
हिमादिषु कथं शैत्यं का सत्ता कालखादिषु।
भावाभावग्रहोत्सर्गस्थूलसूक्ष्मदृशः कथम् ॥ ७॥
कथमत्यन्तमुच्छ्रायं तृणगुल्मनरादिकम्।
वस्तु नायात्यनिष्टेऽपि स्थिते स्वोच्छ्रायकारणे ॥ ८॥
श्रीदेव्युवाच ।
महाप्रलयसंपत्तौ सर्वार्थास्तमये सति।
अनन्ताकाशमाशान्तं सद्ब्रह्मैवावतिष्ठते ॥ ९॥
तच्चिद्रूपतया तेजःकणोऽहमिति चेतति।
स्वप्ने संविद्यथा हि त्वमाकाशगमनादि च ॥ १०॥
तेजःकणोऽसौ स्थूलत्वमात्मनात्मनि विन्दति।
असत्यमेव सत्याभं ब्रह्माण्डं तदिदं स्मृतम् ॥ ११॥
तत्रान्तर्ब्रह्म तद्वेत्ति ब्रह्मायमहमित्यथ।
मनोराज्यं स कुरुते स्वात्मैवं तदिदं जगत् ॥ १२॥
तस्मिन्प्रथमतः सर्गे या यथा यत्र संविदः।
कचितास्तास्तथा तत्र स्थिता अद्यापि निश्चलाः ॥ १३॥
यद्यथा स्फुरितं चित्तं तत्तथा ह्यात्मचिद्भवेत्।
स्वयमेवानियमतस्तत्तत्स्यान्नेह किंचन ॥ १४॥
The Goddess said:
3.54.1–3
> Therefore, those who know what is to be known or those who have taken refuge in the Supreme dharma attain the transcendental worlds right here, and not others.
> The physical body is made of false illusion and delusion. How can it attain a stable place in Truth? How can a shadow stand in the sunlight?
> Lila knew what is to be known but did not take refuge in the Supreme dharma. Only because of that did she go to the city imagined by her husband.
The Awakened Lila said:
3.54.4–8
> Thus she has gone, but O my mother, look at my husband. He has begun to give up his life. What is to be done here now?
> How has the fixed order come about in the existence and non-existence of things? How is there again lack of order shown by birth, death and the like?
> How is the self-nature perfectly established? How does the existence of objects come about? How is the nourishing power of fire and so on? How is the stability in earth and the like?
> How is coldness in snow and the like? What is the existence in Time, Space and the like? How is the perception of gross and subtle in grasping and rejecting Existence and non-existence?
> How do grass, shrubs, humans and the like attain extreme height? The object does not attain it even when the cause of its own height is present but not desired.
The Goddess said:
3.54.9–14
> In the Great Dissolution, when all things have come to an end, the Infinite Space remains calm and only the True Brahm exists.
> And that, in the form of Consciousness, thinks of itself as a particle of light, “I am.” Just as in a dream you perceive moving through Space and other things.
> That particle of light finds grossness in itself by itself. This Universe is remembered as appearing Real but is actually unreal, like Brahm.
> There, the Inner Brahm knows “I am this Brahm.” It creates its own mental kingdom; thus this world is formed.
> In that first Creation, whatever Consciousness es appeared in whatever way and wherever, they remain fixed there even today, unmoving.
> In whatever way the mind has vibrated, in that very way it becomes the Self-Consciousness. By its own freedom from rules, it becomes that and that; there is nothing else here.
Summary of the teachings of these verses:
The ordinary physical body is nothing but illusion and delusion, so it can never find a real, stable place in Truth. It is compared to a shadow that simply cannot stand in bright sunlight. This shows that the material world we see is not the final Reality and that True Knowledge or dharma is the only way to go beyond it.
The example of Queen Lila is given to explain the point further. She had some knowledge but did not fully follow the Supreme dharma, so she ended up in a city created only by her husband’s mind. Then the Awakened Lila asks many deep questions. She wants to know how fixed order and sudden disorder both appear in life, why birth and death keep happening, and how the natural qualities of things like fire’s heat, earth’s firmness or snow’s coldness stay the same. She is trying to understand the rules that seem to govern the world around us.
She also asks how grass, plants and humans grow to their exact heights and how we see things as gross or subtle when we accept or reject the ideas of Existence and non-existence.
These questions point to the mystery of why the world appears so solid and orderly even though it is all mind-made. The Awakened Lila is searching for the root cause behind every natural and mental event we experience.
The Goddess answers by describing the moment of Great Cosmic Dissolution. At that time everything disappears and only Infinite, Peaceful Space and Pure Brahm remain. From this Brahm, Consciousness arises and begins to think of itself as a tiny particle of light saying “I am.” This is compared to a dream in which we see ourselves flying through Space or doing many things that feel completely real while we sleep. In the same way the whole Universe starts as a thought inside Consciousness.
Finally the Goddess explains that this Consciousness creates the entire world as its own mental kingdom. Whatever forms of Consciousness appeared in the very first Creation stay exactly the same and unmoving even today. There are no outside rules; the mind vibrates freely and becomes whatever it imagines. Thus the whole Universe is nothing but the play of Consciousness with no other independent Reality. The teaching is that by understanding this Truth one can rise above illusion and reach Freedom.
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