Йога Васиштха - 5.2. Сказка о Пунье и Паване - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

5.2. The Tale of Punier and Pavan

Vasishtha continued:

Oh frame, in this regard, I will tell you an ancient legend.

There is a huge Mount Mahenra Mountain on the continent of Jambudovip. In the forests on the slopes of this mountain, saints and sages live. For their needs, they brought to this mountain the Viom Ganga River. On the banks of this river lived one sage of Dirgatapa. He had two sons, Punia and Pavan. Punia reached complete enlightenment, and Pavana, although he overcame the delusion, has not yet reached complete enlightenment and therefore had partial wisdom.

With a ruthless course of time, the sage of Dirgatapa (he was free from any attachments and desires) aged and, as the bird flies out of the cage, left his body and reached a state of perfect purity. Using the yogic methods received from him, his wife also followed him.

Due to the sudden departure to the world of both parents, Pavan plunged into a deep inconsolable grief. Punya, however, fulfilled all the funeral ceremonies, but was not touched by severe loss. He went to the combustible Pavan.

Punia said:

Brother, why are you drowning yourself in such a deep grief? The blindness of misunderstanding is the only reason for the rivers of tears from your eyes. Our father and mother went from here to a state of freedom, in the highest state, which is natural for all creatures and which is the true nature of those who surpassed the boundaries of their little “I”. By misunderstanding, you yourself tied yourself to the concepts of “father” and “mother” and shed tears on those who do not have this misunderstanding! He was not our father, but she was not our mother, and you were not their son. You had an endless number of fathers and mothers. You had many children. Your incarnations were countless! And, if you want to cry about the death of your parents, why don't you cry without a break for all these people?

Dear, what you see as the world is only an illusory visibility of the world. In fact, there are no friends or relatives. Therefore, there is no death or separation. All these excellent signs of prosperity around are tricks that last three or five days! Understand the truth with your sharp mind: leave the concepts of “I”, “you”, etc., as well as “he died”, “he left”. All these are just your concepts, not truth at all.

Punia continued:

These wrong concepts “father”, “mother”, “friend”, “relative”, etc. They disappear in the face of truth, as dust is blown away by the wind. Related relationships are not based on the truth, these are only words! If they think about someone as a friend, he is a friend, if they think about him as a friend-he is already “this other”! When all this is seen as one ubiquitous creature, where is the difference between another and “others”?

Brother, think - this body is inert and consists of blood, flesh, bones, etc., where in all this “I”? If you also think about the truth, you will understand that there is nothing that could be called “I” or “you”, what is called Punya or Pavana is nothing more than incorrect concepts.

However, if you still think “I am”, then in past incarnations you had a large number of relatives. Why don't you sob over their death? You had many relatives among swans, when you were a swan, a lot of tree relatives, when you were a tree, many relatives-lions, when you were a lion, many relatives among fish when you were fish. Why don't you cry for them? You were both a prince and a donkey, you were a Pipul tree and you were a tree of a Banyan. You were a scientist and you were a fly, and a mosquito, and an ant. For six months you were a scorpion, you were a bee, and now you are my brother. In these other incarnations, you were born again and again a countless number of times.
I also had many incarnations. I see them all with my subtle pure clairvoyance, like your incarnations. I was a bird, I was a stork, frog, wood, camel, king, tiger - and now I am your older brother. For ten years I have been an eagle, five months - a crocodile and a hundred years - a lion, and now I am your older brother. I remember all this and many other incarnations through which I went in a state of misunderstanding and error. There were countless relatives in all these incarnations. Who should I cry about? Having examined this issue, I do not cry for anyone.

Along this path of life, relatives are scattered, like dry leaves on a forest path. What could be a suitable cause for sadness and joy in this world, brother? Let's leave all these wrong concepts and preserve inner peace. Leave the concept of the surrounding world that arises in your mind as "I". And - stay in place without falling down and not going up! You have no misfortune, no birth, no father and no mother - you are that you are and nothing more. The sages choose the middle path, they see what is now, they are in the world with themselves, they have a witness consciousness - they shine like a lamp in the dark, in whose light all events do not affect the lamp itself.

Vasishtha continued:

Having received such instructions from his brother, Pavana was enlightened. Both of them became enlightened creatures, wise and experienced enlightenment directly. They lived in the forest, doing that they wish and not wanting anything bad