CONTENTS
OF
UPASAMA KHANDA.
(ON QUIETISM.)
BOOK V.

CHAPTER I.
The Áhnika or Daily Ritual[693]
CHAPTER II.
Ráma’s Recapitulation of Vasishtha’s Lectures[698]
CHAPTER III.
Description of the Royal Assembly[703]
CHAPTER IV.
Inquiries of Ráma[706]
CHAPTER V.
Lecture on Tranquility of the Soul and Mind[710]
CHAPTER VI.
Lecture on the Discharge of Duty[716]
CHAPTER VII.
On Attainment of Divine Knowledge[719]
CHAPTER VIII.
Song of the Siddhas or Holy Adepts[720]
CHAPTER IX.
Reflections of Janaka[723]
CHAPTER X.
Silent and Solitary Reflections of Janaka[730]
CHAPTER XI.
Subjection of the Mind[734]
CHAPTER XII.
On the Greatness of the Intelligence[737]
CHAPTER XIII.
Government of the Mind[741]
CHAPTER XIV.
Ascertainment of the Thinking Principle[754]
CHAPTER XV.
On Avarice[761]
CHAPTER XVI.
Healing of Avarice[764]
CHAPTER XVII.
On the Extirpation of Avarice[767]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Living Liberation or True Felicity of Man in this Life[771]
CHAPTER XIX.
On Holy Knowledge[779]
CHAPTER XX.
Remonstration of Pávana[784]
CHAPTER XXI.
Repression of Desires by Means of Yoga-Meditation[789]
CHAPTER XXII.
Narrative of Virochana[793]
CHAPTER XXIII.
Speech of Virochana on Subjection of the Mind[799]
CHAPTER XXIV.
On the Healing and Improvement of the Mind[803]
CHAPTER XXV.
Reflections of Bali[811]
CHAPTER XXVI.
Admonition of Sukra to Bali[814]
CHAPTER XXVII.
Hebetude of Bali[817]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Description of Bali’s anaesthesia[821]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Bali’s resuscitation to sensibility[824]
CHAPTER XXX.
Fall of Hiranyakasipu and Rise of Prahláda[831]
CHAPTER XXXI.
Prahláda’s Faith in Vishnu[835]
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Spiritual and formal Worship of Vishnu[843]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Prahláda’s Supplication to Hari[848]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Prahláda’s Self-knowledge of Spiritualism[852]
CHAPTER XXXV.
Meditation on Brahma in One’s Self[865]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Hymn to the Soul[876]
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Disorder and Disquiet of the Asura Realm[885]
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Scrutiny into the Nature of God[887]
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Admonitions of Hari to Prahláda[890]
CHAPTER XL.
Resuscitation of Prahláda[896]
CHAPTER XLI.
Installation of Prahláda in his Realm[900]
CHAPTER XLII.
Spirituality of Prahláda[905]
CHAPTER XLIII.
Rest and Repose of Prahláda[908]
CHAPTER XLIV.
Narrative of Gádhi and his Destruction[913]
CHAPTER XLV.
Gádhi is Reborn as a Chandála, and made King over the Kir Tribe[918]
CHAPTER XLVI.
Gádhi’s Loss of his Visionary Kingdom[923]
CHAPTER XLVII.
Verification of Gádhi’s Vision[928]
CHAPTER XLVIII.
On the Wondrous Powers of Illusion[935]
CHAPTER XLIX.
Gádhi’s gaining of True Knowledge[943]
CHAPTER L.
Intentions of Ráma[949]
CHAPTER LI.
Desire of Uddálaka[960]
CHAPTER LII.
Ratiocination of Uddálaka[966]
CHAPTER LIII.
The Rational Rapture of Uddálaka[974]

YOGA VASISHTHA

BOOK IV.
STHITI PRAKARANA
ON ONTOLOGY OR EXISTENCE.

CHAPTER I.
JANYA-JANI-NIRÚPANA.

On Genesis and Epigenesis.

Argument. The variety of creation is described as the working of the mind, and the existence of one Brahma only, is established in refutation of the Atomic and Materialistic doctrines of Nyáya and Sánkhya philosophy.

Vasishtha said:—Attend now Ráma, to the subject of Existence, which follows that of Production: a knowledge of this, is productive of nirvána or utter annihilation of the self or soul.

2. Know then the phenomenal world which is existent before you, and your knowledge of egoism or self-existence, to be but erroneous conceptions of the formless inexistence or inanity.

3. You see the tints of various hues painting the vacuous sky, without any paint (colouring substance), or their cause (the painter). This is but a conception of the mind without its visual perception, and like the vision in a dream of one, who is not in a state of sound sleep. (The world is a dream).