THUS I HEARD IT SAID…
The one infinite consciousness alone shines in all names and forms...
The self ignorantly imagines an egotistic existence even as if gold forgetting its goldness might think it is a ring and weep and wail “Alas, I have lost my goldness!” Without real existence is this illusory notion of egotism. This egotism does not exist in the infinite self...
In the infinite self there is no creator, no creation, no worlds, no heaven, no humans, no demons, no bodies, no elements, no time, no existence and no destruction, no ‘you’, no 'I’, no self, no this, no that, no truth, no falsehood, no notion of diversity, no contemplation and no enjoyment... Whatever is, and is known as the universe, is that supreme peace.... (completeness)
There is no beginning, no middle and no end: all is all at all times, beyond the comprehension of the mind and the speech...
There is no creation. The infinite has never abandoned its infinity. ‘That’ has never become ‘this’... It is like the ocean, but without ocean’s movement. It is self-luminous like the sun, but without activity…
In ignorance, the supreme being is viewed as the object, as the world… Even as space exists in space, one with space, even so what appears to be the creation is Brahman (pure-consciousness) existing in Brahman, as Brahman… The notions of far and near, of diversity, of here and there are as valid as the distance between two objects in a mirror in which a whole city is reflected...
~ Yoga Vasistha
