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- Bhagiratha met his preceptor and the two meditated in silence
- Consciousness alone exists consciousness alone is all this
- Endowed with discrimination and dispassion
- Give up the desire that tends to bondage and the desire for liberation too
- He was therefore peaceful in both pain and pleasure
- He who stands rooted in self-knowledge is liberated here and now
- Liberation is not had except through the cessation of all notions
- On account of infinite consciousness all these experiences exist
- Seek the conquest of the mind and self-control which are the fruits of wisdom
- Self alone is the reality all else is appearance
- The distress of the mind is got rid of by enquiry into the nature of the self
- The sage is unattached to anything or anybody
- The same disgusting pleasures are experienced and the same acts are repeated day after day in this w
- The self alone exists as the supreme consciousness
- The whole world is but a long dream
- The world which is afflicted with sorrow is of our own making
- There is unbroken flow of peace and the heart is filled with the bliss of the absolute,
- This world-appearance is a confusion even as a blueness in the sky is an optical illusion
- Thus spake Vasistha on the nature of liberation
- they are the true heroes who have brought under control the mind which is dominated by ignorance and