39. The self-consciousness of our liberation—muktásmi, is what really makes us so; but the knowledge that we are bound to this earth—baddhásmi, is the source of all our woe, which require great pains to be removed.
40. The awakening of our consciousness of the world, is the cause of our being enslaved to it; and its hybernation in the trance of samádhi, is our highest felicity. By being awake to the concerns of the world, you only find the unreal appearing as real to you (for every thing here, is but deception and delusion).
41. Lying dormant in holy trance, without the torpidity of insensibility, is termed our moksha or spiritual liberation; while our wakefulness to the outer world, is said to be the state of our bondage to it.
42. Now let your nirvána be devoid of all desire, and from trouble, care and fear; let it be a clear and continuous revery without any gap or cessation, without the scruples of unity and duality; and be of the form of spacious firmament, ever calm and clear and undisturbed in itself.
CHAPTER LXXX.
The World proved to be a Delusion.
Argument:—Description of ultimate Dissolution according to Rational and Materialistic Philosophy.
Vasishtha continued:—Afterwards the celestials that were present in the heaven of Brahmá, vanished away and became invisible, as a lamp with its weakened (i.e. burnt out), wick or thread.
2. Now the twelve suns, having disappeared in the body of Brahmá; their burning beams burnt away the heaven of Brahmá, as they had burnt down the earth and other bodies.
3. Having consumed the seat and abode of Brahmá, they fell into the meditation of the supreme Brahma, and became extinct in him like Brahmá, as when a lamp is extinguished for the want of its oil.
4. Then the waters of the universal ocean, invaded the celestial city of Brahmá, and over flooded its surface, as the shade of night fills the face of the earth darkness.