Yoga Vashisht or Heaven Found
CHAPTER I.

without desire; mind and desires bind one to rebirth. If one knows himself (the divine self), there is no fear of rebirth. Truth sets them free. Those Jivanmukta (bodily emancipated) have realized the reality; therefore, their Minds do not generate impure desires, but generate pure desires. With pure desire, you do not create rebirth. The lower mind, or work done under the influence of the lower mind produce cause but the higher mind or work done under the influence of the higher mind does not produce any cause.'

"So the King gave up the idea of doing good for reward, but sought to do good for the sake of good. Give up the idea of going to heaven, then you will shine like the Light of Lights that is in all, and is everywhere,--which really you are. Let the lower mind go, that has a hankering to go from place to place, from earth to sky, and from sky to earth.

"With the control of the lower mind, the rebirth is also controlled,--becomes peaceful, immovable, then you become one with pure Wisdom (motion and non-motion).'

"'O, Master', said the King. 'How am I to attain that state where motion and non-motion is one?'

"The Master replied: 'As the ocean is rippled by the waves, but is still one, so all the Universe is non-dual, is Absolute Consciousness, compelling, drawing intelligence unto itself. The ignorant will not understand the difference, how the Truth and Brahma is the Universe itself,--motion in itself,--this Universe Created by itself. If you realize this outwardly, then the blessed state is yours. This merely reverses the appearance, seen as the real cause, as the rope in the dark appears as a snake.

"'By following pure wisdom, and association with the wise., then the spiritual vision will develop; then only can you truly realize as I have explained to you--this creation and the destruction of the Universe.

"'If you practise according to your will, do your duty , then you will not fail to attain the Brahmic state. Does not that do away with all the differences that arise from delusion and ignorance?'

"The Master disappeared, and the King thought to himself,--how can I understand that I am All Peace, All Rest, All Bliss, and Absolute Truth? The King sank into Samadhi, which is above

all pain, misery and the Universe. It is True Peace, and True Silence. The Master resumed the tender form of the Queen, and went through the sky by levitation to her chamber in the palace. There she again graciously ruled over her people three years.

"With her higher mind and power she changed her feminine body for a masculine form, and again visited the King, as she was teaching her King in the form of a Master.