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.