Vasisht & Rama
January 6, 2009
Yoga Vasishta is a book compiled from the talks that Vasishta Maharishi had with Rama.
Rama is 16 years of age and completely devoid of all happiness, he’s going through an identity crisis and is wondering what the hell he is doing in the this world and why the hell is he alive and why all people are going crazy over money, power,women etc.
So the book basically is advice given by Rama’s Guru Vasishta on all these factors and more.
Sri Sri Ravishankar personally recommends reading this book atleast once for any serious seeker of truth and so did Ramana Maharishi.
In all my years of studying scriprtures. two Books stand out for their massive value and the immediacy of the effect of the teachings. One is Yoga Vasishta and the other “I am That”. Both these book are pure advaitha and can catch a man’s mind and never let it go. It’s poweful, simple and direct.
Here Vasishta describes how the world is created, the crux of the problem, basically how and what and why and when of everything, every question you might ever have is explained in this book. every answer, and THE answer to all questions.
Rama in the beginning is dense, a little depressed and not ready to listen to yet another discourse, but as vasishta starts speaking in the royal court, not only Rama but all the courtiers are rapt in attention & are in due course liberated.
To casual readers, its can be an amzing fiction too. the stories, the imagery, the concepts, but if absorbed, the ideas given in this book, if percieved directly vasishta’s one and only message, then there is no escape but to experience the truth.
Like he tells Rama in the beginning “by the time I am done with my talking, you will most definitely be liberated”. Its said that if a non seeker, non interested, depressed seeker like Rama can be liberated by just listening to Vasishta, anybody can too….
“Just as the sky is (i.e. appears to be) stained by dust, smoke and clouds, so also the pure Self in contact with the qualities of maya is (i.e. appears to be) soiled by them.”- Vasishta
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