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Vasishtha continued:--Though remaining in all company, and doing all the duties of life; and although employed in all the acts; yet the wise man watches the movements of his mind.

PERFECT BLISS OF LIVING LIBERATION.

Vasishtha continued:--Men whose souls are expanded and contented with the delight of their habitual unattachment to worldliness; have set themselves above the reach of internal sorrow and fear, notwithstanding their engagement in worldly affairs.

A DISCOURSE ON THE BODY, MIND AND SOUL.

Argument. Consideration of the Soul in its Various lights, and its Irrelation with the body.

Vasishtha continued:--The consideration of the fourth stage, is attended with the knowledge of monoity or oneness of all; and this is the province of the living liberated man according to the dicta of the veda. .

A LECTURE ON THE NATURE OF LIBERATION.

Argument. The subjection of the material body to sorrow and misery.

Vasishtha continued:--You are not born with the birth of your body, nor are you dead with its death. You are the immaculate spirit in your soul, and your body is nobody to you.

INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF THE SOUL.

Argument. Two kinds of Ego, the one commendable and another Reprehensible Egoism; the abandonment of which is tantamount to Liberation.

LECTURE ON APATHY OR STOICISM.

Argument. Error is the cause of the misconception of the World, and Right Reason is the means of deliverance from it.

Vasishtha continued:--It is a pleasure to look at the outer world, and painful to turn the sight to the inner soul; as it is pleasant to see the delightful prospects abroad, and bitterness of the heart to be without them. .

ON MANCIPATION AND EMANCIPATION.

Argument. Instances of the Enfranchisement of many great Examplars in Active Life among gods and men.

Vasishtha continued:--See, Janaka the king employed in the government of his realm, and yet liberated in his lifetime from his bondage in the world; by means of his mental release from all its cares and anxieties.

THE WORLD COMPARED WITH THE OCEAN.

Argument. The world likened to the ocean, and the women to its waves. The means of passing over it, and the delight when it is got over.

Vasishtha continued:--These worlds which have sprung from Brahm? the creator, are upheld by ignorance, and become extinct before right reason. .

ON LIVING LIBERATION.

Argument. On Liberation from Earthly Bondage, and Salvation of the Soul during one's Lifetime.

R?ma rejoined:--O sage! nobody is satiate with all thou sayest, but must learn more and more from you; therefore say in short the substance of the present subject, which is as grand as it is wondrous to hear.

MANNER OF CONDUCTING THE YOGA HYPNOTISM.

Argument. The Action of the Mind is creative of the Error of the World, and Yoga is the suppression of that Action.

Vasishtha continued:--As the rotation of a firebrand, describes a circle of sparkling fires; so the revolving of the mind, depicts the apparent circumference to the sky, as the real circle of the universe.

DESCRIPTION OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE.

Argument. The second method of suppressing the Mind by spiritual knowledge, being the Theory of self liberation.

R?ma said:--Sir, as you have related to me the methods of suspending the mind to a dead lock, by means of yoga practices; I hope you will kindly tell me now, the manner in which it is brought to stand still, by means of perfect knowledge.

INVESTIGATION OF THE PHENOMENALS.

Argument. Description of Divine Meditation, which keeps the mind from its attention to temporary enjoyments.

Vasishtha continued:--I will now describe to you that pensive excogitation, which keeps the reasoning mind, from attending to objects placed in its presence.

UNSUBSTANTIALITY OF THE MIND.

Argument. The unsubstantiality of the Mind is established by Reasoning and Intuition.

Vasishtha resumed:--Having thus considered and known the mind in themselves; and in the aforesaid manner; it is the business of great minded philosophers, O mighty Rama, to enquire into the nature of the soul, as far as it is knowable .

INVESTIGATION INTO THE NATURE OF THE SENSUOUS MIND.

Argument. Story of V?tahavya, materialist becomes a spiritualist.

Vasishtha continued:--It was in this manner that the learned Samvarta, who had the knowledge of the soul reasoned with himself, and which he communicated to me on the Vindhyan mountain. .

ON THE NECESSITY OF AVOIDING ALL BODILY AND WORLDLY CARES, AND ABIDING IN INTELLECTUAL DELIGHTS.

Argument:--The sensuous Mind and the senses as roots of Evil, and their Extinction as the source of God.

Vasishtha continued:--Hear now R?ma, how that great sage of enlightened understanding, remonstrated in silence with his refractory senses.

THE MENTAL OR IMAGINARY WORLD OF THE SAGE.

Argument. Hybernation of the Sage in a subterraneous cell, and the revery of his dominion over aerial spirits.

Vasishtha continued:--The Sage V?tahavya having thus reflected in his mind, renounced all his worldly desires, and sat in his hypnotic trance in a cave of the Vindhyan mountains.

THE SAGE'S SAM?DHI OR ABSORPTION IN THE DIVINE SPIRIT.

Argument. Lecture on Sam?dhi Yoga or complete concentration of the Mind in God.

R?ma said:--Now tell me Sir, what became of this sage in his mansion of the cavern; how he lifted his body from it, and what did he accomplish by his austere and intense devotion?

GOVERNMENT OF BODILY ORGANS.

Argument. Necessity of controul over senses for concentration of the Mind.

Argument. The manner in which the sage obtained his Bodiless Liberation after his Death.

A DISCOURSE ON YOGA MEDITATION.

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