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Yoga Vashishtha 3.95.28–38
(These verses teach that the mind and action are inseparable from the very beginning)
श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच।
साधु राघव पृष्टोऽस्मि त्वया प्रश्नमिमं शुभम्।
शृणु वक्ष्यामि ते येन भृशं ज्ञानोदयो भवेत् ॥ २८॥
मानसोऽयं समुन्मेषः कलाकलनरूपतः।
एतत्तत्कर्मणां बीजं फलमस्यैव विद्यते ॥ २९॥
यदैव हि मनस्तत्त्वमुत्थितं ब्रह्मणः पदात्।
तदैव कर्म जन्तूनां जीवो देहतया स्थितः ॥ ३०॥
कुसुमाशययोर्भेदो न यथा भिन्नयोरिह।
तथैव कर्ममनसोर्भेदो नास्त्यविभिन्नयोः ॥ ३१॥
क्रियास्पन्दो जगत्यस्मिन्कर्मेति कथितो बुधैः।
पूर्वं तस्य मनो देहं कर्मातश्चित्तमेव हि ॥ ३२॥
न स शैलो न तद्व्योम न सोऽब्धिश्च न विष्टपम्।
अस्ति यत्र फलं नास्ति कृतानामात्मकर्मणाम् ॥ ३३॥
ऐहिकं प्राक्तनं वापि कर्म यद्रचितं स्फुरत्।
पौरुषोऽसौ परो यत्नो न कदाचन निष्फलः ॥ ३४॥
कृष्णतासंक्षये यद्वत्क्षीयते कज्जलं स्वयम्।
स्पन्दात्मकर्मविगमे तद्वत्प्रक्षीयते मनः ॥ ३५॥
कर्मनाशे मनोनाशो मनोनाशो ह्यकर्मता।
मुक्तस्यैव भवत्येव नामुक्तस्य कदाचन ॥ ३६॥
वह्न्यौष्णयोरिव सदा श्लिष्टयोश्चित्तकर्मणोः।
द्वयोरेकतराभावे द्वयमेव विलीयते ॥ ३७॥
चित्तं सदा स्पन्दविलासमेत्य स्पन्दैकरूपं ननु कर्मविद्धि।
कर्माथ चित्तं किल धर्मकर्मपदं गते राम परस्परेण ॥ ३८॥
Sage Vashishta replied:
3.95.28–38
> O good Rama, you have asked me this auspicious question well. Listen, I shall tell you that by which a great rise of Knowledge will take place.
> This arising of the mind is of the nature of conceptualization and calculation. This itself is the seed of actions, and its fruit also exists from this alone.
> The very moment the principle of mind arose from the State of Brahm, at that very time the actions of living Beings came about, and the individual soul became established in the form of a body.
> Just as there is no difference between a flower and its fragrance even when they are thought of as separate, in the same way there is no difference between action and mind, which are not separate from each other.
> The vibration of activity in this world is called action by the wise. First there is the mind as the body of that action, and from action arises the mind itself.
> There is no mountain, no sky, no ocean, and no heaven where the fruit of the actions performed by oneself does not exist.
> Whether belonging to this life or to a previous one, the action that has been created and is now appearing is the supreme human effort, and it is never without fruit.
> Just as lampblack disappears by itself when blackness is destroyed, in the same way the mind is destroyed when the vibrating action comes to an end.
> With the destruction of action comes the destruction of the mind, and with the destruction of the mind comes the absence of action. This happens only for the liberated one, and never for one who is not liberated.
> Just as fire and heat are always joined together, so are the mind and action. When either one of the two is absent, both dissolve away.
> Know the mind, which always takes on the play of vibration, to be of the form of vibration alone, and that is action. And O Rama, action and mind mutually enter into the state of their own nature and activity.
Summary of the teachings:
The moment the Principle of mind arises from Brahm, actions of living Beings and the individual soul in bodily form also appear together. The mind’s arising in the form of conceptualization is itself the seed of all actions, and the results of those actions also come from the same source. There is no real distinction between them, just as there is none between a flower and its fragrance.
Action is described as the vibration or movement that the wise call karma in the World. The mind is the prior form or body of that action, and the mind itself arises from action. Thus the two continually support and produce each other. No deliberate human effort, whether of the present life or of past lives, is ever without result. There is no place in the entire universe—mountain, sky, ocean, or heaven—where the fruits of one’s own actions do not exist and operate.
The mind continues only as long as vibrating action continues. When the vibrating activity of the mind ceases, the mind itself dissolves, just as lampblack disappears when its blackness is removed. Conversely, when action is destroyed the mind is destroyed, and when the mind is destroyed actionlessness follows. This complete ending of both occurs only for the liberated person and never for one who remains bound.
Mind and action are as inseparably united as fire and its heat. The absence of either one necessarily brings the disappearance of both. The mind is always of the nature of playful vibration, and that very vibration is action. Action and mind therefore pass into each other’s essential nature and activity, continually conditioning and reinforcing one another.
The overall teaching is that liberation consists in the simultaneous cessation of both mind and action. As long as the mind vibrates in the form of thoughts and desires, actions and their results continue to bind the individual. Only when this mutual dependence is completely ended does the State of Freedom arise, and that State belongs solely to the one who has become free.
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