About the Book:
This is a favorite book of spiritual seekers in India these several centuries. Its special appeal lies in its thoroughly rational approach and in its presentation of Vedanta as a philosophy to bridge the gulf between the secular and the sacred action and contemplation and lofty spirituality.
This monumental scripture is the greatest help to the spiritual awakening and the direct experience of the Truth. This is certain. If this is what you want you are welcome to the Yoga Vasistha. An oft-recurring expression in this scripture is a crow alights on the coconut palm tree and at that very moment, a ripe coconut falls. The two unrelated events thus seem to be related in time and space, though there is no causal relationship.
Such is life. Such is creation But the mind caught up in its own trap of logic questions why invents a why and a wherefore to satisfy itself, conveniently ignoring the inconvenient question that still haunts an intelligent mind. Vasistha demands direct observation of the mind its motion its notion it is reasoning the assumed cause and the projected result and even the observer.
The Swami has arranged the verses of the book in such a way as to convert them into a rosary of daily thoughts throughout the year, on the lines of his two other books published, namely The Srimad Bhagavatam or Book of God, and The Bhagavad Gita Or The Song of God.
In this book, Swami Venkatesananda has masterfully translated the Yoga Vasistha, the well-known Vedanta treatise in Sanskrit so that it is understood not only by scholars but by laymen as well.
Acknowledgment | Vi | |
Foreword by Swami Ranganathananda | Ix | |
Blessing by Swami Muktananda | X1 | |
Foreword by Prime Minister Office, Mauritius | Xi | |
Introduction | Xiii | |
Prayer | Xvi | |
1. | VAITAGAYA PRAKARANAM | 1-20 |
2. | MUMUKSU VYAVAHARA PRAKARANAM | 21-31 |
3. | UTPATTI PRAKARANAM | 32-103 |
4. | STHITI PRAKARANAM | 104-137 |
5. | UPASAMA PRAKARANAM | 138-221 |
6. | NIRVANA PRAKARANAM | 222-366 |
Thus Spake Vasistha | 367 | |
Index | 376 |
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