By

VIHARI-LALA MITRA

CONTENTS
OF
THE FOURTH VOLUME.
NIRVÁNA PRAKARANA.
BOOK VI.

CHAPTER I.
On Unintentional Acts and Actions[1]
CHAPTER II.
Burning of the seeds of action for Prevention of their Vegetation[7]
CHAPTER III.
Disappearance of the Phenomenals[13]
CHAPTER IV.
Annihilation of Egoism[20]
CHAPTER V.
Narrative of a Vidyádhara and his queries[26]
CHAPTER VI.
Description of Disaffection and Disgust to the world[29]
CHAPTER VII.
Description of the seed of the Arbour of world[36]
CHAPTER VIII.
Description of the Temple of Illusion[39]
CHAPTER IX.
Of the Development of Intellect[43]
CHAPTER X.
Description of Creation as an Emanation from Brahmá[45]
CHAPTER XI.
On Truth and Right knowledge[48]
CHAPTER XII.
On the identity of the Will and its work of the Desire and its Production[50]
CHAPTER XIII.
Anecdote of Indra and an account of the Atomic World[56]
CHAPTER XIV.
Story of Indrání; and Establishment of the identity of the acts of Creation and imagination[60]
CHAPTER XV.
The Final Extinction of the Vidyádhara[64]
CHAPTER XVI.
Extinction of Vidyádhara (continued)[67]
CHAPTER XVII.
Lecture on the Annihilation of Egoism[69]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Description of the Universal sphere[71]
CHAPTER XIX.
Description of the Form of Virát or the all comprehending Deity[77]
CHAPTER XX.
Lecture on the Extinction of the Living soul[82]
CHAPTER XXI.
What constitutes True knowledge[85]
CHAPTER XXII.
The yoga conducive to Happiness or the way to Happiness[87]
CHAPTER XXIII.
Story of a Pious Bráhmana and his Nirvána-Extinction[95]
CHAPTER XXIV.
Indifference or Insouciance of Manki to Worldliness[101]
CHAPTER XXV.
Vasishtha’s Admonition to Manki[104]
CHAPTER XXVI.
Manki’s attainment of Final Extinction or Nirvána[109]
CHAPTER XXVII.
Sermon on the superior sort of yoga meditation[115]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Demonstrated conclusion of the Doubtful Truth[118]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Sermon on Holy Meditation[123]
CHAPTER XXX.
Sermon on spirituality[133]
CHAPTER XXXI.
Sermon on the Means of Attaining the Nirvána Extinction[137]
CHAPTER XXXII.
Sermon inculcating the knowledge of truth[143]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Sermon on the True sense of Truth[147]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Sermon on the Practice of spiritual yoga or intellectual meditation[153]
CHAPTER XXXV.
Description of the Supreme Brahma[159]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Sermon on the seed or source of the world[164]
CHAPTER XXXVII.
A Lecture on the visibles and Visible world[170]
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Disquisition of Nirvána-quietism[181]
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Vasishtha’s Gítá or sermon on the sweet peace of mind[187]
CHAPTER XL.
On the Quiescence of the soul[192]
CHAPTER XLI.
Repose in one’s essential Nature[194]
CHAPTER XLII.
A Lecture on Nirvána-Extinction[198]
CHAPTER XLIII.
On the infinite Extension of Brahma[205]
CHAPTER XLIV.
Dangers to which the wandering (staglike) Mind is exposed[213]
CHAPTER XLV.
Continuation of the story of the Deer like mind[219]
CHAPTER XLVI.
On abstract meditation and Hypnotism[227]
CHAPTER XLVII.
The first step towards Liberation[230]
CHAPTER XLVIII.
On the Dignity of Right Discrimination[236]
CHAPTER XLIX.
Total stoicism and insouciance[241]
CHAPTER L.
Description of the seven kinds of Living beings[248]
CHAPTER LI.
Admonition to Arrive at the yoga of Ultimate Rest[252]
CHAPTER LII.
Description of the Form and Attributes of Brahma[258]
CHAPTER LIII.
Explanation of Nirvána-Anaesthesia[264]
CHAPTER LIV.
Establishment of the undivided individuality of God[267]
CHAPTER LV.
The spiritual sense of the world[272]
CHAPTER LVI.
Story of the Great stone and Vasishtha’s Meditation[276]
CHAPTER LVII.
On the knowledge of the known and unknown[281]
CHAPTER LVIII.
Proving the creation as Divine Attribute[285]
CHAPTER LIX.
Description of the Net work of the world[288]
CHAPTER LX.
The Net works of World (continued)[295]
CHAPTER LXI.
On the identity of the world with infinite vacuity[302]
CHAPTER LXII.
The unity of the intellect with the intellectual World[307]
CHAPTER LXIII.
Unity of the universe with the universal soul[313]
CHAPTER LXIV.
Sport of the heavenly Nymphs[318]
CHAPTER LXV.
Life and conduct of the Etherial Nymph[326]
CHAPTER LXVI.
Description of the inside of the stony mansion of the World[329]
CHAPTER LXVII.
Praise of continued practice or the Force of Habit[333]
CHAPTER LXVIII.
The Fallacy of the Existence of the World[339]
CHAPTER LXIX.
Entrance into the Cosmical stone of Mundane Egg[345]
CHAPTER LXX.
The words of the creator of Worlds in the Mundane stone[349]
CHAPTER LXXI.
Description of final Dissolution[353]
CHAPTER LXXII.
Description of Nirvána or Final extinction[360]
CHAPTER LXXIII.
Description of the person of Virát—the God of Nature[364]
CHAPTER LXXIV.
Description of the cosmical Body of Virát (continued)[371]
CHAPTER LXXV.
Description of the Final conflagration of the world[376]
CHAPTER LXXVI.
The stridor of Pushkarávarta clouds[383]
CHAPTER LXXVII.
Description of the world overflooded by the rains[388]
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
Description of the universal Ocean[394]
CHAPTER LXXIX.
Maintenance of inappetency or want of Desire[398]
CHAPTER LXXX.
The world Proved to be a Delusion[404]
CHAPTER LXXXI.
Description of the last night of death or general doom[411]
CHAPTER LXXXII.
Description of the person of the God Siva[423]
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
Sight of the Mundane God[427]
CHAPTER LXXXIV.
Relation of Siva and Sakti or of the holy spirit and its power[431]
CHAPTER LXXXV.
Relation of Nature and soul or the Prime Male and Female Powers[438]
CHAPTER LXXXVI.
The Convertibility of the World to the Supreme Spirit[442]
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
The infinity of the World shown in the Material body[449]
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
Further Description of earth[458]
CHAPTER LXXXIX.
The Phenomenal as the Reproduction of Reminiscence[461]
CHAPTER LXXXX.
Description of the Watery creation[465]
CHAPTER LXXXXI.
Description of Igneous, Luminous and Brilliant Objects in nature[469]
CHAPTER LXXXXII.
Description of the current air, as the universal spirit[477]
CHAPTER LXXXXIII.
The Advent and Psalmody of a siddha in the Aerial Abode of Vasishtha[484]
CHAPTER LXXXXIV.
Description of a Pisácha, and the unity of the world with Brahma[495]
CHAPTER LXXXXV.
Description of the person of Vasishtha[505]
CHAPTER LXXXXVI.
Establishment of immortality[509]
CHAPTER LXXXXVII.
On the Rarity and Retiredness of Religious Recluses[514]
CHAPTER LXXXXVIII.
Praise of good society, or association with the good and wise[520]
CHAPTER LXXXXIX.
A Discourse on Esoteric or Spiritual knowledge[523]
CHAPTER C.
Refutation of Atheism[530]
CHAPTER CI.
A Sermon on spirituality[537]
CHAPTER CII.
Exposition of Buddhism and disproving of Deaths[542]
CHAPTER CIII.
Proof of the unity of the Deity amidst the variety of creation[549]
CHAPTER CIV.
Establishment of the Non-entity of the world[561]
CHAPTER CV.
Likeness of Waking and sleeping Dreams[563]

YOGA VASISHTHA.

UTTARÁDHA
OR THE LATTER HALF OR SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NIRVÁNA PRAKARANA.

CHAPTER I.
On Unintentional Acts and Actions.

Argument:—The manner how the liberated should conduct themselves in life, with renunciation of their egoism and selfish desires.

Ráma rejoined:—The renunciation of the notion of one’s personality or egoism in his own person, being attended by its attendant evil of inertness and inactivity (lit. want of acts), it naturally brings on a premature decay and decline, and the eventual falling off of the body in a short time: how then is it possible sir, for an indifferent person of this kind, to practice his actions and discharge the active duties of life (as you preached in your last lecture)?

2. Vasishtha replied:—It is possible Ráma, for the living person to resign his false ideas and not for one that is dead and gone (because the life of a man is independent of his notions; while the notions are dependant on his life). Hear me now to expound this truth, and it will greatly please your ears: (lit. it will be an ornament to your ears).