from the Yoga Vasishtha

That person’s life indeed is beautiful who, having become free from likes and dislikes, acquires a calm and cool mind and views the world as a witness, without getting involved in it.

His life indeed is blessed who, abandoning the judgement of what is superior or inferior, has come to exhaustively know that mind which is deep inside his mind.

A Yogi whose mind is as calm and cool as the light of the full moon and who always remains absorbed in transcendental Brahman is indeed like the Supreme Divinity.

One who remains unaffected by either joy or sorrow, thinking deeply in his heart about the Upanishadic statements that generate the knowledge of Brahman (the Absolute), is not overpowered by any worldly suffering.

Being convinced of Oneness existing everywhere, when the seeker after liberation with a cool mind remains established in his inner Divine Self, his egoism is then destroyed. Having lost his egoism he then remains like a pure, spotless sky.

When the mind becomes cooled by thinking of Brahman, the world also appears to be cool. When the mind becomes heated by desires and emotions, the world appears to be a gigantic forest fire.

Since I am of undisturbed mind in distress, and since in affluence I am the friend of the entire world, and as I am devoid of the sense of loss or gain, I live a life free from mental afflictions.

I am devoid of worldly pursuits, free from desires for sense objects; I am independent and unattached like the sky. I am peaceful, formless, eternal, and immovable, not capable of being disturbed or distressed.

I transcend everything. I am all-pervading and am unaffected and immutable like the sky. Whatever I am is Brahman, and Brahman is none other than I. Again and again I salute my true Self – the eternal, ever-free, pure Consciousness – which abides in every embodied being.

I am unable to say anything more than this.

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