Yoga Vasistha

योगवासिष्ठ

The Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana (~32,000 verses, 6 Prakaranas) — the most philosophically sophisticated non-dual text in Sanskrit. Sage Vasistha instructs the despondent young Rama through nested stories, each a different angle on the same recognition: the world is Brahman dreaming itself. P1 Vairagya: 'jagajjālaṃ manojālaṃ' — web of world is web of mind; desire (kama) is never extinguished by enjoyment — fire fed with ghee burns higher. P2 Mumukshu: fourfold qualification — viveka, vairagya, shatsampati, mumukshutva. P3 Utpatti: 'cinmātrameva vidyate' — consciousness alone exists; brahmanda in the atom; the Leela story (entire world within meditation-consciousness). P4 Sthiti: vasanas sustain the projected world. P5 Upashama: 'vāsanaiva hi saṃsāraḥ' — vasana alone is samsara; dissolution through vichara (self-enquiry), not suppression. P6 Nirvana: jivan-mukti — 'yo na hṛṣyati na dveṣṭi' — the liberated one acts fully in the world without the adhesion of reactivity.