The Supreme Yoga (Yoga Vasistha), Volume 1 - by Swami Venkatesananda: August 30 section V chapter 34 ghrtam yatha ntah payaso rasasakttir yatha jale cicchakttih sarvabhavesu tatha ntarahamasthitah (56) Prahlada continued to contemplate: The one self, which is the sole experiencing, is therefore the experiencer in all: hence the self is said to have a thousand hands and a thousand eyes. With this beauteous body of the sun, this self which is I roams the space, as also in the body of air. It is the same with the self embodied as the deity holding the conch, discus, mace, etc., who is adored in this world. It was this self or I that was born as the one who is ever seated in the lotus (the creator Brahma). It is the self again that shall dissolve this creation or withdraw it from manifestation at the end of the world-cycle. The self referred to as the I embodied in Indra protects the world. I am woman, I am man, I am the youth, I am the senile old man; and on account of embodiment, I am apparently born here. I am the omnipresent. From the ground of the infinite consciousness I raise trees and plants, being present in them as their very essence. Even as clay in the hands of a playful child, this world-appearance is pervaded by me for my own delight. The world derives its reality from the self (me), it functions in and through me and when I abandon it or cease to comprehend it, it ceases to have any reality. For, this world exists in me, the self or infinite consciousness, even as a reflection seems to exist in a mirror. I am the fragrance in flowers, I am the radiance in flowers and leaves, I am the light in the radiance and even in that light I am the experience. Whatever mobile and immobile beings exist in this universe, I am their supreme truth or consciousness free from conceptualisation. I am the very essence in all things in the universe. Just as butter exists in milk and just as liquidity exists in water, even so as the energy of consciousness I exist in all that exists. This world-appearance of the past, the present and the future exists in the infinite consciousness without the distinction of objectivity. This omnipresent, omnipotent cosmic being is the self which is indicated by the I. This cosmic kingdom known as the universe has come to me unsought and is pervaded by me. As the self or the infinite consciousness I pervade the entire universe, even as the one cosmic ocean pervades the cosmos after the cosmic creation has been dissolved. Even as a lame (incapacitated) aquatic creature finds the cosmic ocean is without limits, I find no end to the extent of myself, which is infinite. This world-appearance is like a dust-particle in the infinite consciousness: it does not satisfy me, even as a tiny fruit does not appease an elephants hunger. Hence, the form which began to expand in the house of the creator Brahma even now continues to expand. vivid-water-9254.herokuapp/yv/1/8/30
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