The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA. OF VÁLMÍKIViharilala Mitra translationChapter navigation107 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA. OF VÁLMÍKITHE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA OF VÁLMÍKIChapter I · On Unintentional Acts and Actions.Chapter II · Burning of the Seeds of Action for Prevention of their vegetation.Chapter III · Disappearance of the Phenomenals.Chapter IV · Annihilation of Egoism.Chapter V · Narrative of a Vidyádhara and his Queries.Chapter VI · Description of Disaffection and Disgust to the World.Chapter VII · Description of the Seed of the Arbour of the World.Chapter VIII · Description of the Temple of Illusion.Chapter IX · On the Development of Intellect.Chapter X · Description of Creation as an Emanation from Brahma.Chapter XI · On Truth and Right Knowledge.Chapter XII · On the Identity of the Will and its Work of the Desire and its Production.Chapter XIII · Anecdote of Indra, and an account of the Atomic World.Chapter XIV · Story of Indrání; and Establishment of the Identity of the Acts of Creation and Imagination.Chapter XV · The Final Extinction of the Vidyádhara.Chapter XVI · Extinction of Vidyádhara (Continued).Chapter XVII · Lecture on the Annihilation of Egoism.Chapter XVIII · Description of the Universal Sphere.Chapter XIX · Description of the Form of Virát or the all Comprehending Deity.Chapter XX · Lecture on the Extinction of the Living Soul.Chapter XXI · What Constitutes True Knowledge.Chapter XXII · The Yoga Conducive to Happiness or the way to Happiness.Chapter XXIII · Story of a Pious Bráhmana and his Nirvána Extinction.Chapter XXIV · Indifference or Insouciance of Manki to Worldliness.Chapter XXV · Vasishtha’s Admonition to Manki.Chapter XXVI · Manki’s Attainment of Final Extinction or Nirvána.Chapter XXVII · Sermon on the Superior Sort of Yoga Meditation.Chapter XXVIII · Demonstrated conclusion of the doubtful truth.Chapter XXIX · Sermon on Holy Meditation.Chapter XXX · Sermon on Spirituality.Chapter XXXI · Sermon on the means of attaining the Nirvána Extinction.Chapter XXXII · Sermon inculcating the Knowledge of Truth.Chapter XXXIII · Sermon on the True Sense of Truth.Chapter XXXIV · Sermon on the Practice of Spiritual Yoga or Intellectual Meditation.Chapter XXXV · Description of the Supreme Brahma.Chapter XXXVI · Sermon on the Seed or Source of the World.Chapter XXXVII · A Lecture on the Visibles and Visible World.Chapter XXXVIII · Disquisition of Nirvána—Quietism.Chapter XXXIX · Vasishtha’s Gítá or Sermon on the Sweet Peace of Mind.Chapter XL · On the Quiescence of the soul.Chapter XLI · Repose in one’s Essential nature.Chapter XLII · A Lecture on Nirvána—Extinction.Chapter XLIII · On the Infinite Extension of Brahma.Chapter XLIV · Dangers to which the wandering (staglike) Mind is exposed.Chapter XLV · Continuation of the Story of the Deerlike Mind.Chapter XLVI · On Abstract Meditation and Hypnotism.Chapter XLVII · The First Step towards Liberation.Chapter XLVIII · On the Dignity of Right Discrimination.Chapter XLIX · Total Stoicism and Insouciance.Chapter L · Description of the Seven kinds of Living Beings.Chapter LI · Admonition to arrive at the Yoga of Ultimate Rest.Chapter LII · Description of the Form and Attributes of Brahma.Chapter LIII · Explanation of Nirvána—Anaesthesia.Chapter LIV · Establishment of the Undivided Individuality of God.Chapter LV · The Spiritual sense of the World.Chapter LVI · Story of the Great Stone, and Vasishtha’s Meditation.Chapter LVII · On the Knowledge of the Known and Unknown.Chapter LVIII · Proving the Creation as Divine Attribute.Chapter LIX · Description of the Net work of the World.Chapter LX · The Network of Worlds (Continued).Chapter LXI · On the Identity of the World with Infinite vacuity.Chapter LXII · The unity of the Intellect with the Intellectual World.Chapter LXIII · Unity of the Universe with the Universal soul.Chapter LXIV · Sport of the Heavenly Nymphs.Chapter LXV · Life and Conduct of the Etherial Nymph.Chapter LXVI · Description of the Inside of the Stony mansion of the World.Chapter LXVII · Praise of Continued Practice or the Force of Habit.Chapter LXVIII · The Fallacy of the Existence of the World.Chapter LXIX · Entrance into the Cosmical Stone of Mundane Egg.Chapter LXX · The Words of the Creator of Worlds in the Mundane Stone.Chapter LXXI · Description of Final Dissolution.Chapter LXXII · Description of Nirvána or Final Extinction.Chapter LXXIII · Description of the Person of Virát—The God of Nature.Chapter LXXIV · Description of the Cosmical body of Virát (Continued).Chapter LXXV · Description of the Final Conflagration of the World.Chapter LXXVI · The Stridor of Pushkarávarta Clouds.Chapter LXXVII · Description of the World Overflooded by the Rains.Chapter LXXVIII · Description of the Universal Ocean.Chapter LXXIX · Maintenance of Inappetency or Want of Desire.Chapter LXXX · The World proved to be a Delusion.Chapter LXXXI · Description of the Last Night of Death or General Doom.Chapter LXXXII · Description of the Person of the God Siva.Chapter LXXXIII · Sight of the Mundane God.Chapter LXXXIV · Relation of Siva and Sakti or of the Holy Spirit and its Power.Chapter LXXXV · Relation of Nature and Soul, or the Prime Male and Female Powers.Chapter LXXXVI · The Convertibility of the World to the Supreme Spirit.Chapter LXXXVII · The Infinity of the World Shown in the Material Body.Chapter LXXXVIII · Further Description of the Earth.Chapter LXXXIX · The Phenomenal as the Reproduction of Reminiscence.Chapter LXXXX · Description of the Watery creation.Chapter LXXXXI · Description of Igneous, Luminous and Brilliant Objects in Nature.Chapter LXXXXII · Description of the Current Air, as the Universal Spirit.Chapter LXXXXIII · The advent and psalmody of a siddha in the Aerial Abode of Vasishtha.Chapter LXXXXIV · Description of a Pisácha, and the Unity of the World with Brahma.Chapter LXXXXV · Description of the person of Vasishtha.Chapter LXXXXVI · Establishment of Immortality.Chapter LXXXXVII · On the Rarity and Retiredness of Religious Recluses.Chapter LXXXXVIII · Praise of good Society, or Association with the good and Wise.Chapter LXXXXIX · A Discourse on Esoteric or Spiritual Knowledge.Chapter C · Refutation of Atheism.Chapter CI · A sermon on Spirituality.Chapter CII · Exposition of Buddhism and Disproving of Death.Chapter CIII · Proof of the Unity of the Deity Amidst the Variety of Creation.Chapter CIV · Establishment of the Non-entity of the World.Chapter CV · Likeness of Waking and Sleeping Dreams.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA OF VÁLMÍKIAll chapters and sections (107)Other sectionsTHE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA. 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