A note from Yoga Vasistha.

Facebook archive. First published on 14.05.2016.

With difficulty I found in the English version the very line that, in the Russian version, filled a gap in my understanding. I very much hope that in the original source in Sanskrit it sounds the same.

"The activity and the behaviour of beings in this world are governed mainly by the vision of the yogis, and to a small degree by the perception of the mind."

"The actions and behavior of beings in this world are determined mainly by the vision of yogis and to a small degree by the perceptions of the mind."

Now I will explain why this sentence is so important. In the generally accepted sense, after attaining nirvana the consciousness of the yogin dissolves in Brahman. This aligns with all Eastern religious directions. But there is no explanation of what this means. And at first glance, dissolution in Brahman is perceived as the loss of personality, which is also true, and at the first stage is perceived as final death, but of the soul itself now, not only of the body. That is, we stop suffering because we have dissolved into an infinite nothing. This is like treating a headache by means of a guillotine. But this is not true.

In Vasistha, in only one place, there is a brief footnote at the moment of the creation of the universe that slightly expands the concept of dissolution in Brahman. Vasistha says that in the beginning super-beings were created by Brahman, and that all the rest of the world is the dream of these beings. The line I cite finally removes the veils of falsehood, describing that these super-beings are enlightened yogis. That it is precisely their vision of the world that determines material reality.

The world is the deep meditation of these enlightened yogis. And dissolution in Brahman, like the loss of personality, should be understood as a return to the original source, to the one who imagines the current reality. It is like the process of realization in a lucid dream: it will no longer be possible to remain the same, just as it will no longer be possible to keep the former perception of the world. This simple idea often flashed by as an analogy, but it turned out that it should be understood literally.