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The spelling of Sanskrit words are normalized to some extent, including correct/addition of accents where necessary. Note that the author uses á, í, ú to indicate long vowels. This notation has not been changed. The LPP edition (1999) which has been scanned for this ebook, is of poor quality, and in some cases text was missing. Where possible, the missing/unclear text has been supplied from another edition, which has the same typographical basis (both editions are photographical reprints of the same source, or perhaps one is a copy of the other): Bharatiya Publishing House, Delhi 1978. A third edition, Parimal Publications, Delhi 1998, which is based on an OCR scanning of the same typographical basis, has also been consulted in a few cases. The term “Gloss.” or “Glossary” probably refers to the extensive classical commentary to Yoga Vásishtha by Ananda Bodhendra Saraswati (only available in Sanskrit). - THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA. OF VÁLMÍKI VOL. IV (part 1) THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA OF VÁLMÍKI in 4 vols. in 7 pts. (Bound in 4.) Vol. 4 (In 2 pts.) Bound in one. Containing The Nirvana-Prakarana, Uttarárdha Translated from the original Sanskrit By VIHARI-LALA MITRA CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. NIRVÁNA PRAKARANA.
Vedic / Vedanta
Yoga Vasistha (Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana)
On Unintentional Acts and Actions 1
Burning of the seeds of action for 7 Prevention of their Vegetation
Disappearance of the Phenomenals 13
Annihilation of Egoism 20
Narrative of a Vidyádhara and his 26 queries
Description of Disaffection and Disgust 29 to the world
Description of the seed of the Arbour of 36 world
Description of the Temple of Illusion 39
Of the Development of Intellect 43
Description of Creation as an Emanation 45 from Brahmá
On Truth and Right knowledge 48
On the identity of the Will and its work 50 of the Desire and its Production
Anecdote of Indra and an account of the 56 Atomic World
Story of Indrání; and Establishment of 60 the identity of the acts of Creation and imagination
The Final Extinction of the Vidyádhara 64
Extinction of Vidyádhara (continued) 67
Lecture on the Annihilation of Egoism 69
Description of the Universal sphere 71
Description of the Form of Virát or the 77 all comprehending Deity
Lecture on the Extinction of the Living 82 soul
What constitutes True knowledge 85
The yoga conducive to Happiness or the 87 way to Happiness
Story of a Pious Bráhmana and his 95 Nirvána-Extinction
Indifference or Insouciance of Manki to 101 Worldliness
Vasishtha’s Admonition to Manki 104
Manki’s attainment of Final Extinction 109 or Nirvána
Sermon on the superior sort of yoga 115 meditation
Demonstrated conclusion of the Doubtful 118 Truth
Sermon on Holy Meditation 123
Sermon on spirituality 133
Sermon on the Means of Attaining the 137 Nirvána Extinction
Sermon inculcating the knowledge of 143 truth
Sermon on the True sense of Truth 147
Sermon on the Practice of spiritual yoga 153 or intellectual meditation
Description of the Supreme Brahma 159
Sermon on the seed or source of the 164 world
A Lecture on the visibles and Visible 170 world
Disquisition of Nirvána-quietism 181
Vasishtha’s Gítá or sermon on the sweet 187 peace of mind
On the Quiescence of the soul 192
Repose in one’s essential Nature 194
A Lecture on Nirvána-Extinction 198
On the infinite Extension of Brahma 205
Dangers to which the wandering 213 (staglike) Mind is exposed
Continuation of the story of the Deer 219 like mind
On abstract meditation and Hypnotism 227
The first step towards Liberation 230
On the Dignity of Right Discrimination 236
Total stoicism and insouciance 241
Description of the seven kinds of Living 248 beings
Admonition to Arrive at the yoga of 252 Ultimate Rest
Description of the Form and Attributes 258 of Brahma
Explanation of Nirvána-Anaesthesia 264
Establishment of the undivided 267 individuality of God
The spiritual sense of the world 272
Story of the Great stone and Vasishtha’s 276 Meditation
On the knowledge of the known and 281 unknown
Proving the creation as Divine Attribute 285
Description of the Net work of the world 288
The Net works of World (continued) 295
On the identity of the world with 302 infinite vacuity
The unity of the intellect with the 307 intellectual World
Unity of the universe with the universal 313 soul
Sport of the heavenly Nymphs 318
Life and conduct of the Etherial Nymph 326
Description of the inside of the stony 329 mansion of the World
Praise of continued practice or the 333 Force of Habit
The Fallacy of the Existence of the 339 World
Entrance into the Cosmical stone of 345 Mundane Egg
The words of the creator of Worlds in 349 the Mundane stone
Description of final Dissolution 353
Description of Nirvána or Final 360 extinction
Description of the person of Virát—the 364 God of Nature
Description of the cosmical Body of 371 Virát (continued)
Description of the Final conflagration 376 of the world
The stridor of Pushkarávarta clouds 383
Description of the world overflooded by 388 the rains
Description of the universal Ocean 394
Maintenance of inappetency or want of 398 Desire
The world Proved to be a Delusion 404
Description of the last night of death 411 or general doom
Description of the person of the God 423 Siva
Sight of the Mundane God 427
Relation of Siva and Sakti or of the 431 holy spirit and its power
Relation of Nature and soul or the Prime 438 Male and Female Powers
The Convertibility of the World to the 442 Supreme Spirit
The infinity of the World shown in the 449 Material body
Further Description of earth 458
The Phenomenal as the Reproduction of 461 Reminiscence
Description of the Watery creation 465
Description of Igneous, Luminous and 469 Brilliant Objects in nature
Description of the current air, as the 477 universal spirit
The Advent and Psalmody of a siddha in 484 the Aerial Abode of Vasishtha
Description of a Pisácha, and the unity 495 of the world with Brahma
Description of the person of Vasishtha 505
Establishment of immortality 509
On the Rarity and Retiredness of 514 Religious Recluses
Praise of good society, or association 520 with the good and wise
A Discourse on Esoteric or Spiritual 523 knowledge