Yogavasishta - Part 3

PART 3 (ORIGINATION)
Sri Kuppa Venkata Krishna Murthy

Prof. Murthy is the chairman of I-SERVE, the Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas. He has a master's degree in Modern Mathematics and is Professor in the School of Vedic Studies & Research with expertise in Sanskrit and Telugu. He is the author of numerous books and an internationally renowned speaker on scientific aspects of Vedic knowledge.

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Yogavaasishta is a treasure house of the ancient Indian philosophical wisdom. It offers logical and practical answers to questions like: What is Mind? What is creation? What is thepurpose of existence? What is Brahman? It is a poetic classic by the Sage Valmiki explaining the nature of The Supreme Self expounded in his own inimitable and graceful way as a Discourse between Maharishi Vasishta and Lord Sri Rama.

The present volume, “Musings on Yogavaasishta” – Part III ORIGINATION (utpatti prakaraNa), is a presentation by BrahmasriKuppaVenkata Krishna Murthy, the Vidyadhikari of AvadhootaDattaPeetham, Mysore and forms a part of his lectures on “Yogavaasishta” telecast by GEMINI T.V. in Telugu. This volume is a rendering of the same into English by Dr. Vemuri Ramesam. The real weighty Advaita in Yogavaasishta begins with the third chapter of 7000 stanzas which have been ably condensed and lucidly explained in simple words. The main thrust of the teaching by Sage Vasishta is that the visible world has no real origination. He establishes that the space-time-causation of the phenomenal world is illusory and arises out of pure mentation. The meaning and role of mAyA and death in samsAra stand clearly illuminated. The Sage shows further that the apparent world and the body of an individual are the projections of one’s own mind through the stories of the Dream King and his dream, AkAshaja, Leela, Demon Karkati, Aindavas, Lavana and many others.

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Contents

1.	Introduction	1
2.	Space and Time:	2
3.	When did creation happen?	3
4.	mAyA is ‘Plus’	4
5.	Beingness + thought = Hiranyagarbha (Creator)	6
6.	The King from the Dream	7
7.	Dream King to You :: You to Hiranyagarbha	10
8.	Story of AkAshaja	12
9.	Wakeful World is also a Mentation	15
10.	Form of the Mind	16
11.	Dream in a Dream	18
12.	Way to Attain The Self-Knowledge	20
13.	brahman Himself Is the Bound Individual	21
14.	Intrinsic Qualities of the Supreme Self	22
15.	Obstructions to Self-Knowledge	24
16.	Characteristics of a jIvanmukta (Liberated while alive)	25
17.	Characteristics of a videhamukta (Liberated without body)	26
18.	The World is Never Born	27
19.	Two Facets of brahman	29
20.	Order of Creation	31
21.	Topics Discussed in the 13thsarga	33
22.	The World, The Individual and Hiranyagarbha	34
23.	Story of Leela	37
24.	Three Spaces	38
25.	Definition of Consciousness-Space	39
26.	Experiencing Consciousness-Space	40
27.	Which is real?	41
28.	The story of a Shanty	43
29.	The story of Vasishta Brahmana	43
30.	The Kingdom In a Hut	44
31.	An Epoch In a Second	45
32.	Impressions – Memory – Imagination	46
33.	Cause and Effect Relationship	48
34.	Swift Bodies (AtivAhika sharIra)	49
35.	Inquiry is The Remedy	50
36.	Detachment without Self-Knowledge is Useless	52
37.	The Universe in A Tiny Room	53
38.	Fulfilment of Intentions (satyasaMkalpa siddhi)	53
39.	Past Lives of Leela	55
40.	Life of Brahmin Leela	57
41.	Intergalactic Space within Consciousness-space	57
42.	Gravitational Attraction	59
43.	The War	61
44.	The Body and The World are Equally Mentations	61
45.	Matter – Experience – Memory	63
46.	At The Moment of Death Births The Next Life	65
47.	Mithya is neither real nor unreal	67
48.	Virtual Images or Real Beings?	70
49.	Leela -P and Leela- V	73
50.	Viduratha’s Journey To Other Worlds	74
51.	Gross World also is Made up of Impressions only	77
52.	Boons and Curses	77
53.	What governs Happiness and Sorrow	79
54.	The process of Leaving the Body	81
55.	What is death?	82
56.	The process of Rebirth	85
57.	The Twists and Turns in the discussion	87
58.	The Path of the Impressions	88
59.	Effect of performing last rites	90
60.	Realized Individuals are with subtle bodies only	92
61.	Resurrection of King Padma	94
62.	Lessons from the Story of Leela	98
63.	Sage Vasishta’s Explanation of the Story of Leela	101
64.	Conversion Tables for Equivalence in Time Periods	102
65.	“Grace” is Intrinsic Order Combined with Human	105
66.	Beingness to the Individual	107
67.	Illusion, its Effects and Liberation	110
68.	Story of Sucika, The Needle-shaped Demon	113
69.	The Second Meditation of Sucika	114
70.	Enigmatic questions	116
71.	The Divine demon	122
72.	Adoring the Knower’s of brahman	124
73.	Birth and Death are Imaginations	125
74.	Review of the story of Karkati	128
75.	Story of Aindava	130
76.	Story of A Different Indra and Ahalya	134
77.	Body and World are MindCongealed	136
78.	The Nature of Mind	137
79.	Types of Adjuncts	139
80.	Actor is Action	142
81.	Flow Chart to show Actor is Action	144
82.	Explanation of the Flow Chart	144
83.	Mind or Action – Any one may go	148
84.	Mind is the Key	150
85.	Mind Is both Sentient and Insentient	153
86.	Story of the Mind	156
87.	The Symbology in the Story of Mind	157
88.	A Children’s Crazy Story	160
89.	The Story of King Lavana (The Story of Magic Tricks)	161
90.	The Illusory Tribal World	162
91.	Conquering the Mind	165
92.	Continuation of Lavana’s Story	167
93.	Intrinsic Nature - some Definitions	169
94.	Stages in Ignorance	170
95.	Seven stages on the Knowledge Path	172
96.	‘I-consciousness’ is like the ring	174
97.	Story of Lavana - Part-3	175
98.	Review of the Chapter on Creation	179

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