Random quotes from Yoga Vasishta

 Just as the trees on the bank of a lake are reflected

in the water, so also all these varied objects are reflected in the vast mirror of our consciousness.

Even though bondage does not really exist, it becomes strong through desire for worldly enjoyments; when this desire subsides bondage becomes weak.

Like waves rising up from the ocean the unstable mind rises out of the vast and stable expanse of the Supreme Self.

This world, though unreal, appears to exist and is the cause of life-long suffering to an ignorant person, just as a (non-existent) ghost (is the cause of fear) to a boy.

One who has no idea of gold sees only the bracelet. He does not at all have the idea that it is merely gold.

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.

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

Like clouds which suddenly appear in a clear sky and as suddenly dissolve, the entire universe (appears) in the Self and (dissolves in it).

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.

Just as the foam, the waves, the dew and the bubbles are not different from water, even so this world which has come out of the Self is not different from the Self