ON DISSOLUTION: different paths are for different types...which are you, this lifetime?.........................My teachings are not meant for those, O Rama, whose intelligence has been silenced by a firm faith in the reality of this illusory world, and the consequent striving for the pleasures of this world. What foolish man will endeavor to show a colorful forest to one who refuses to see? Who will strive to educate that man whose nose has been eaten away by leprosy in the delicate art of distinguishing different perfumes? Who will instruct the drunkard in the subtleties of metaphysics? Who will make inquiries concerning village affairs from a corpse lying in the crematorium? If a fool does just this, who can dissuade him from such foolish attempt? Even so, who can instruct that ignorant person who finds it difficult to govern the mind which is dumb and blind? What indeed is the Jiva (individual soul) but a word which has befuddled the intelligence of people? Even the finite or individualized consciousness is an unreal fancy: what can it do! Seeing the fate of the ignorant people who are suffering because the mind that they have fancied into existence veils the TRUTH which alone exists, I am filled with pity. In this world fools are born only to suffer and perish. Every day millions upon millions of mosquitoes are killed by the wind. From the smallest ant to the greatest of divinities, all are subject to birth and death. Every moment countless beings die and countless others are born, totally regardless of whether people like it or not, whether they rejoice or grieve. Hence, it were wiser neither to grieve nor to rejoice Over The Inevitable. O Rama, they who behave like beasts cannot be instructed, for they are being led like animals by the rope of their own mind. Hence, the wise man does not attempt to teach those who have not overcome their own mind and are therefore miserable in every way. On the other hand, the wise do endeavor to remove the sorrow of those who have conquered their mind and who are therefore ripe to undertake self-inquiry.{WHO AM I, WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF ME?} When objectivity arises in your consciousness, the latter becomes conditioned and limited: that is bondage. When objectivity is abandoned, you become mind-less: that is liberation. In the middle between the Self as the seer and the world as the seen, you are the seeing {SIGHT}: always remain in this realization. Between the experiencer and the experience you are THE EXPERIENCING: knowing this, remain in Self-Knowledge....................The Concise Yoga VASISTHA pgs. 175 & 176 translated by Swami Venkatesananda 1984 edition
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