Yoga Vasishta Sara 🕉 Chapter Two: UNREALIT Y OF THE WORLD

 

18. The world is

full of misery to an ignorant man and

full of bliss to a wise man.

The world is dark to a blind man and

bright to one who has eyes.

19. The bliss of a man of discrimination, who has rejected samsara and discarded all mental concepts,

constantly increases.

20. Like clouds which suddenly appear in a clear sky and as suddenly dissolve,

the entire universe (appears)

in the Self and (dissolves in it).

21. He who reckons the rays as non-different from the sun and

realizes that they are the sun itself

is stated to be nirvikalpa

(the undifferentiating man).

22. Just as the cloth,

when investigated,

is seen to be nothing but thread,

so also this world,

when enquired into,

is (seen to be) merely the Self.