Vasistha:
There once lived a mendicant w ho was devoted to meditation. His mind, having been purified by such meditation, came to possess the power to materialise its thoughts.
One day. being tired of continuous meditation, yet having his mind fully concentrated, he thought of doing something. He fancied birth as one who was illiterate and of a non-brahmata family. Instantly, he had become, as it were, a tribes-man: there arose in him the feeling 'I am Jivata'. This dream-being roamed for sometime in the city also built of dream-objects. One day he got drunk and slept. He dreamt that he was a brahmana endowed with knowledge of the scriptures. While he was living a righteous life, one day this brahmana dreamt that he was a powerful king. He dreamt that he was a mighty emperor of unequalled glory. One day he indulged in royal pleasures and after that slept and dreamt of a celestial nymph.
Similarly, this nymph one day dreamt that she was a deer. And this deer dreamt that it was a creeper. Surely. even animals behold dreams. for such Is the nature of the mind which can recollect what has been seen and what has been heard. The deer became a creeper. The inner intelligence in the creeper saw in its own heart a bee. It became a bee and the bee began to drink the nectar in the flowers on the creeper. It became attached to the nectar in one of those flowers, surely for its own destruction!
At night an elephant approached this creeper and plucked it, along with the bee, and crushed it in its mouth. However, the bee, having seen the elephant, contemplated the elephant and became an elephant. The elephant was captured by a king. One day it saw a hive of bees and on account of the memory of its own past birth it became a bee. It began to drink the nectar of the flowers in wild creepers. It became a creeper. The creeper was destroyed by an elephant, but because the creeper had seen swans in the nearby lake, it became a swan.
One day this swan was roaming in the company of many other swans. While the mendicant was meditating upon this swan, he was overcome by death. His consciousness therefore became embodied in the swan.
That swan once beheld lord Rudra and in its heart there arose the conviction 1 am Rudra'. Instantly it abandoned its body as swan and became Rudra. And that Rudra dwelt in the abode of Rudra. However, since Rudra was endowed with true knowledge, he remembered all that had taken place!
Rudra recollected thus:
Behold! How mysterious is this Maya which deludes all the worlds: though it is unreal it appears to be real. First of all, in that infinite consciousness which was myself there arose the mind with objective consciousness, though yet cosmic and omniscient. Then accidentally, I happened to be the jiva which felt attracted to and charmed by the finest part of the cosmic elements. Therefore during a certain creation-cycle I became the mendicant who remained totally unagitated. He was able to overcome all distractions and remain immersed in the practice of contemplation.
However. every subsequent action is more powerful than a previous act. The mendicant considered himself Jivata and so did he become. After that he be-thought he was a brahmana. Surely the more powerful thought-form overwhelms the weaker one. Then in course of time and on account of persistent contemplation, he became a king: surely, water imbibed by the plant becomes its fruit! Associated with royal pleasures are nymphs: contemplating them, the king became a nymph. Purely on account of infatuation, this nymph became a deer. The deer became a creeper which was obsessed with the idea that it would be pierced and a hole would be made. Contemplating the bee, it became a bee, which then pierced a hole in the creeper. The bee became an elephant.
I am Rudra who has been a Rudra during the past one hundred creation-cycles, and I roam this world-appearance which is nothing more than a psycho-logical delusion. In one creation-cycle I was Jivata, in another I was the brahmaria, in another I was the king and in yet another I was the swan. Thus have I been revolving in this wheel known as the mind and the body.
It is aeons since I slipped from that supreme self or infinite consciousness. Soon after that fall I was that mendicant who was still endowed with knowledge of the truth. Then after passing through very many incarnations, through the grace of Rudra, whom I happened to behold. I have become Rudra. When the jiva by coincidence comes into contact with an enlightened person. then its impure vasana (tendencies) turn away. This happens to that person who constantly longs for such contact with an enlightened person. Such constant longing (or abhyasa) itself materialises and becomes an accomplished fact.
This world is an optical illusion like the blueness of the sky. It is ignorance. I shall retrace the chain of imaginary transformations and restore their underlying unity.
Vasistha continued:
Thus having resolved, Rudra went to where the body of the mendicant lay. He awakened it and inspired it to remember all that had taken place. The mendicant saw Rudra as his own self, and also recollected all that had happened.
Then both of them went to where Jivata lived in the same infinite consciousness. They revived his body. The three were indeed one. These three, who were wonder-struck at this mystery, then proceeded to the place of the brahmana who was asleep, embraced by his wife. They awakened his consciousness. Then they went to where the king was asleep in his royal bedchamber, surrounded by nymphs. They awakened his intelligence, too. He too was amazed at the realisation of the truth. Thus they went to where the swan lived — the swan that became Rudra.
They roamed the world of the one hundred Rudra of the past. They realised that it was all one infinite consciousness in which all these diverse illusory events had apparently taken place. The one form had become many, as it were. These one hundred Rudra pervaded the entire universe and were omnipresent.
On account of the fact that the jiva is surrounded on all sides by the world that arises from it, the unawakened jiva do not see one another, do not understand one another. Just as all waves are of the same substance and are therefore one, the awakened jiva realise their oneness and thus understand one another. Each jiva has its own illusory world-appearance. However, even as one finds empty space wherever one digs the ground. when this world-appearance of the jiva is enquired into, it invariably leads to the same infinite consciousness.
Differentiated consciousness is bondage; liberation is its absence. Whatever pleases you, affirm that and be firm in that. There is no difference between the two, for awareness is the same in both. Who will bemoan the loss of what exists only in ignorance? That which is gained by 'being still', exists already and has therefore already been 'gained'!
All of them attained awakening of their spiritual consciousness along with lord Rudra. Realising that they were part of Rudra, they were happy. Rudra saw the play of Maya as it arose, and he inspired the others to play their roles in it once again, commanding them to return to him after such seemingly independent existence, and assuring them at the end of the world-cycle they would reach the supreme state. Rudra then vanished from sight. and Jivata and the others returned to their own respective abodes.
http://www.estudantedavedanta.net/The-Supreme-Yoga-Swami-Venkatesananda.pdf
There once lived a mendicant w ho was devoted to meditation. His mind, having been purified by such meditation, came to possess the power to materialise its thoughts.
One day. being tired of continuous meditation, yet having his mind fully concentrated, he thought of doing something. He fancied birth as one who was illiterate and of a non-brahmata family. Instantly, he had become, as it were, a tribes-man: there arose in him the feeling 'I am Jivata'. This dream-being roamed for sometime in the city also built of dream-objects. One day he got drunk and slept. He dreamt that he was a brahmana endowed with knowledge of the scriptures. While he was living a righteous life, one day this brahmana dreamt that he was a powerful king. He dreamt that he was a mighty emperor of unequalled glory. One day he indulged in royal pleasures and after that slept and dreamt of a celestial nymph.
Similarly, this nymph one day dreamt that she was a deer. And this deer dreamt that it was a creeper. Surely. even animals behold dreams. for such Is the nature of the mind which can recollect what has been seen and what has been heard. The deer became a creeper. The inner intelligence in the creeper saw in its own heart a bee. It became a bee and the bee began to drink the nectar in the flowers on the creeper. It became attached to the nectar in one of those flowers, surely for its own destruction!
At night an elephant approached this creeper and plucked it, along with the bee, and crushed it in its mouth. However, the bee, having seen the elephant, contemplated the elephant and became an elephant. The elephant was captured by a king. One day it saw a hive of bees and on account of the memory of its own past birth it became a bee. It began to drink the nectar of the flowers in wild creepers. It became a creeper. The creeper was destroyed by an elephant, but because the creeper had seen swans in the nearby lake, it became a swan.
One day this swan was roaming in the company of many other swans. While the mendicant was meditating upon this swan, he was overcome by death. His consciousness therefore became embodied in the swan.
That swan once beheld lord Rudra and in its heart there arose the conviction 1 am Rudra'. Instantly it abandoned its body as swan and became Rudra. And that Rudra dwelt in the abode of Rudra. However, since Rudra was endowed with true knowledge, he remembered all that had taken place!
Rudra recollected thus:
Behold! How mysterious is this Maya which deludes all the worlds: though it is unreal it appears to be real. First of all, in that infinite consciousness which was myself there arose the mind with objective consciousness, though yet cosmic and omniscient. Then accidentally, I happened to be the jiva which felt attracted to and charmed by the finest part of the cosmic elements. Therefore during a certain creation-cycle I became the mendicant who remained totally unagitated. He was able to overcome all distractions and remain immersed in the practice of contemplation.
However. every subsequent action is more powerful than a previous act. The mendicant considered himself Jivata and so did he become. After that he be-thought he was a brahmana. Surely the more powerful thought-form overwhelms the weaker one. Then in course of time and on account of persistent contemplation, he became a king: surely, water imbibed by the plant becomes its fruit! Associated with royal pleasures are nymphs: contemplating them, the king became a nymph. Purely on account of infatuation, this nymph became a deer. The deer became a creeper which was obsessed with the idea that it would be pierced and a hole would be made. Contemplating the bee, it became a bee, which then pierced a hole in the creeper. The bee became an elephant.
I am Rudra who has been a Rudra during the past one hundred creation-cycles, and I roam this world-appearance which is nothing more than a psycho-logical delusion. In one creation-cycle I was Jivata, in another I was the brahmaria, in another I was the king and in yet another I was the swan. Thus have I been revolving in this wheel known as the mind and the body.
It is aeons since I slipped from that supreme self or infinite consciousness. Soon after that fall I was that mendicant who was still endowed with knowledge of the truth. Then after passing through very many incarnations, through the grace of Rudra, whom I happened to behold. I have become Rudra. When the jiva by coincidence comes into contact with an enlightened person. then its impure vasana (tendencies) turn away. This happens to that person who constantly longs for such contact with an enlightened person. Such constant longing (or abhyasa) itself materialises and becomes an accomplished fact.
This world is an optical illusion like the blueness of the sky. It is ignorance. I shall retrace the chain of imaginary transformations and restore their underlying unity.
Vasistha continued:
Thus having resolved, Rudra went to where the body of the mendicant lay. He awakened it and inspired it to remember all that had taken place. The mendicant saw Rudra as his own self, and also recollected all that had happened.
Then both of them went to where Jivata lived in the same infinite consciousness. They revived his body. The three were indeed one. These three, who were wonder-struck at this mystery, then proceeded to the place of the brahmana who was asleep, embraced by his wife. They awakened his consciousness. Then they went to where the king was asleep in his royal bedchamber, surrounded by nymphs. They awakened his intelligence, too. He too was amazed at the realisation of the truth. Thus they went to where the swan lived — the swan that became Rudra.
They roamed the world of the one hundred Rudra of the past. They realised that it was all one infinite consciousness in which all these diverse illusory events had apparently taken place. The one form had become many, as it were. These one hundred Rudra pervaded the entire universe and were omnipresent.
On account of the fact that the jiva is surrounded on all sides by the world that arises from it, the unawakened jiva do not see one another, do not understand one another. Just as all waves are of the same substance and are therefore one, the awakened jiva realise their oneness and thus understand one another. Each jiva has its own illusory world-appearance. However, even as one finds empty space wherever one digs the ground. when this world-appearance of the jiva is enquired into, it invariably leads to the same infinite consciousness.
Differentiated consciousness is bondage; liberation is its absence. Whatever pleases you, affirm that and be firm in that. There is no difference between the two, for awareness is the same in both. Who will bemoan the loss of what exists only in ignorance? That which is gained by 'being still', exists already and has therefore already been 'gained'!
All of them attained awakening of their spiritual consciousness along with lord Rudra. Realising that they were part of Rudra, they were happy. Rudra saw the play of Maya as it arose, and he inspired the others to play their roles in it once again, commanding them to return to him after such seemingly independent existence, and assuring them at the end of the world-cycle they would reach the supreme state. Rudra then vanished from sight. and Jivata and the others returned to their own respective abodes.
http://www.estudantedavedanta.net/The-Supreme-Yoga-Swami-Venkatesananda.pdf
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