Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent punctuation has been silently corrected.

Obvious misspellings have been silently corrected, and the following corrections made to the text. Other spelling and hyphenation variations have not been modified.

Page 412 - and the other to that of the learned -> and the other to that
of the unlearned
Page 413 - in mountainous -> in the mountainous
Page 437, section 66 - favourite females -> favourite of females
Page 634, section 40 - full of inequity -> full of iniquity
Page 680, section 22 - the like -> like the
Page 715, section 53 - unvisionary -> visionary
Page 816, section 16 - bring though -> even though
Page 930, section 29 - very thick and lean -> very thin and lean

Also, some of the shortcomings of the LPP edition have been corrected by referencing other printings:

Page 434: Missing line "remove it by your subjection to ignorance
and idleness" was inserted.

Page 687 in the printed book is a copy of page 887 (where it belongs).
The missing page 687 has been supplied from the Bharatiya edition. (It
is the start of chapter LXI: On Birth, Death and Existence (verse
1-9)). This error has been reproduced in the Parimal ed. because this
is based on a scanning of an edition with this error.

Page 688 and 888 were switched in the printed book.

Page 886: verse 17-18 were missing.

Page 918: verse 8 was missing.

Angle brackets: <...> have been used by the transcriber to indicate light editing of the text to insert missing words.

The spelling of Sanskrit words are normalized to some extent, including correct/addition of accents where necessary. Note that the author uses á, í, ú to indicate long vowels. This notation has not been changed.

The third Devanagari character in footnote 7 is illegible in the text. It has been inserted from an alternate text, although it appears that the original of this text may in fact have included a typo.

The LPP edition (1999) which has been scanned for this ebook, is of poor quality, and in some cases text was missing. Where possible, the missing/unclear text has been supplied from another edition, which has the same typographical basis (both editions are photographical reprints of the same source, or perhaps one is a copy of the other): Bharatiya Publishing House, Delhi 1978.

A third edition, Parimal Publications, Delhi 1998, which is based on an OCR scanning of the same typographical basis, has also been consulted.

The term “Gloss.” or “Glossary” probably refers to the extensive classical commentary to Yoga Vásishtha by Ananda Bodhendra Saraswati (only available in Sanskrit).

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THE

YOGA-VÁSISHTHA-MAHÁRÁMÁYANA.

VOL. II (part 2)

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THE
YOGA-VÁSISHTHA
MAHÁRÁMÁYANA
OF
VÁLMÍKI

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THE

YOGA-VÁSISHTHA
MAHÁRÁMÁYANA

OF

VÁLMÍKI

in 4 vols. in 7 pts.
(Bound in 4.)

Vol. 2 (In 2 pts.)
Bound in one.

Containing
Utpatti Khanda, Sthiti Prakarana and
Upasama Khanda to Chapter LIII.

_Translated from the original Sanskrit
By_
VIHARI-LALA MITRA

YOGA VASISHTHA

BOOK IV.
STHITI PRAKARANA
ON ONTOLOGY OR EXISTENCE.

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CONTENTS
OF
STHITI PRAKARANA.

(ON ONTOLOGY OR EXISTENCE).

BOOK IV.

CHAPTER I.
Janya-Jani-Nirúpana 403

CHAPTER II.
The Receptacle of the Mundane Egg 408

CHAPTER III.
Eternity of the World 411

CHAPTER IV.
Treating of the Germ of Existence 414

CHAPTER V.
Story of Bhárgava 416

CHAPTER VI.
Elysium of Bhárgava 418

CHAPTER VII.
Re-union of the Lovers 421

CHAPTER VIII.
Transmigration of Sukra 425

CHAPTER IX.
Description of Sukra’s Body 429

CHAPTER X.
Bhrigu’s Conference with Kála or Death 431

CHAPTER XI.
Cause of the Production of the World 439

CHAPTER XII.
Detailed Account of the Genesis of the World 448

CHAPTER XIII.
Consolation of Bhrigu 451

CHAPTER XIV.
Sukra’s Reminiscence of his Metempsychosis 454

CHAPTER XV.
Lamentation and Expostulation of Sukra 459

CHAPTER XVI.
Resuscitation of Sukra 464

CHAPTER XVII.
Attainment of the Ideal Realm 467

CHAPTER XVIII.
The Incarnation of the Living Spirit 471

CHAPTER XIX.
Investigation into the Nature of the Living Soul 480

CHAPTER XX.
Description of the Mind 484

CHAPTER XXI.
On the Philosophy of the Mind 486

CHAPTER XXII.
Resting in Supreme Felicity 493

CHAPTER XXIII.
Meditation of the Wonders in the Realm
of the Body 498

CHAPTER XXIV.
The Non-entity of the Mind 505

CHAPTER XXV.
Narrative of Dáma, Vyála and Kata 508

CHAPTER XXVI.
Battle of the Deities and Demons 512

CHAPTER XXVII.
Admonition of Brahmá 518

CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Renewed Battle of the Gods and Demons 523

CHAPTER XXIX.
Defeat of the Demons 527

CHAPTER XXX.
Account of the Subsequent lives of the Demons 531

CHAPTER XXXI.
Investigation of Reality and Unreality 533

CHAPTER XXXII.
On Good Conduct 539

CHAPTER XXXIII.
Consideration of Egoism 545

CHAPTER XXXIV.
End of the Story of Dáma and Vyála 553

CHAPTER XXXV.
Description of Insouciance 558

CHAPTER XXXVI.
Description of the Intellectual Sphere 566

CHAPTER XXXVII.
Upasama. The Sameness or Quietism of the Soul 570

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
The Same Quietness or Quietude of the Spirit 572

CHAPTER XXXIX.
On the Unity of all Things 577

CHAPTER XXXX.
Brahma Identic with the World 584

CHAPTER XLI.
Description of ignorance 589

CHAPTER XLII.
Production of Jíva or Living Souls 593

CHAPTER XLIII.
The Repositories of Living Souls 598

CHAPTER XLIV.
The Incarnation of Human Souls in the World 605

CHAPTER XLV.
Dependence of all on God 611

CHAPTER XLVI.
Description of Living-Liberation 617

CHAPTER XLVII.
Description of the Worlds and their Demiurgi 621

CHAPTER XLVIII.
Story of Dásúra 630

CHAPTER XLIX.
Description of Dásúra’s Kadamba Forest 635

CHAPTER L.
Dásúra’s Survey of the Heavens 639

CHAPTER LI.
Dásúra’s Begetting a Son 641

CHAPTER LII.
Grandeur of the Air-born King 645

CHAPTER LIII.
Description of the Mundane City 649

CHAPTER LIV.
Corrective of Desires 655

CHAPTER LV.
Meeting of Vasishtha and Dásúra 660

CHAPTER LVI.
On the Soul and its Inertness 664

CHAPTER LVII.
Nature of Volleity and Nolleity 670

CHAPTER LVIII.
The song of Kacha 676

CHAPTER LIX.
Works of Brahmá’s Creation 678

CHAPTER LX.
Production of Living Beings 684

CHAPTER LXI.
On Birth, Death and Existence 687

CHAPTER LXII.
Speech of the Divine Messenger 690

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